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Savageman
Savageman

Reputation: 9477

Does any faster centralized version control than SVN exists?

I've been using SVN since a long time and now we're trying on Git. I'm not talking on the centralized / decentralized debate here. My only concern is speed.

The latter tool is much faster. But sometimes, I NEED to work with a centralized approach, which is much more simple and less complex than the decentralized one. The learning curve is really fast, which saves a lot of time (while digging into decentralized would lead to a waste of time, given the learning curve is much longer and we encounter more problem when working with it).

However, SVN is really slow compared to GIT, and I don't think it has anything to do with the centralized argument. Decentralized systems also have to deal with server connections and file transfert. So I can easilly imagine a faster implementation of centralized version control could exists.

Does someone has any clue on this?

Upvotes: 7

Views: 395

Answers (4)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1323115

The one CVCS (Centralized Version Control System) I know being much faster than SVN is not a freeware one:

Perforce

I detail Perforce in this SO answer.

Perforce diagram

You can see a comparison between Perforce and Subversion in this document.
Its merge support in particular is much more effective.

Upvotes: 5

Hardcoded
Hardcoded

Reputation: 6494

What makes SVN slow is how it handles the working copies. Thousands of files are touched and written.

You could try Bazaar (bzr) as it supports workflows (but I don't know if it is really faster) or wait for SVN 1.7 with WC-NG and centralized meta-data. SVN 1.7 is planned for this summer, but could also be finished later.

Upvotes: 1

Marcelo Cantos
Marcelo Cantos

Reputation: 185852

Git supports many topologies, including the centralised CVS/SVN approach. There are several options:

  1. Provide a central shared repository via ssh. gitosis makes this easier.
  2. Use github private accounts.
  3. Use github's commercial server product, github:fi in your own data center.

Upvotes: 1

Greg Hewgill
Greg Hewgill

Reputation: 992707

Git is very flexible and works just fine in a centralised arrangement. On a server somewhere, create a "bare" repository with something like:

mkdir repo
cd repo
git init --bare --shared

Then push your repository into the bare one on the server, and call that one the "central" repo.

Upvotes: 0

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