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• That's kind of weird... (Score:1)

  by rooneg (3732)

  I don't know what's making it so slow for you, but that's certainly not what I'm seeing here on OS X.
  
  $ time svn --version > /dev/null
  real 0m0.130s
  user 0m0.060s
  sys 0m0.000s
  
  What version of svn are you using, just out of curiosity? And can you perhaps try and get a handle on what it's doing? Perhaps some ktrace output?
• something else... (Score:2)

  by lachoy (1663)

  It's probably something else; on my OS X (svn: 1.05) I got:

  shazam:~ cwinters$ time svn --version > /dev/null
  
  real    0m0.066s
  user    0m0.050s
  sys     0m0.020s
  shazam:~ cwinters$ time cvs --version > /dev/null
  
  real    0m0.091s
  user    0m0.000s
  sys     0m0.020s

  My only use of svn has been on win32. There I found that for everything except checking out it was as fast or faster than cvs. Checking out an SVN branch is remarkably slow, but
• slow version (Score:2)

  by gabor (1626)

  There was some discussion on the subversion users mailing list of the slowness of some of the recent versions. While I am not sure it is related to what you are experiencing I read it is going to be fixed soon.

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  • Re:slow version (Score:1)

    by rooneg (3732)

    The slowness that was discussed on the list was related to the operation that underlies the 'svn list' command, and only when used over the ra_dav ra layer. It'll be fixed in 1.1.1, which should be out in the next day or so, the fix was already released as part of 1.0.9 if you're still using the 1.0.x series of releases.
    
    That said, that problem has nothing to do with what he's seeing here.
• IPV6? (Score:1)

  by phillup (4419)

  Check and make sure your system isn't trying to use IPV6 for name resolution. It can slow down the first connection to a system (even localhost).
  
  Does it give the same speed difference if you do them in reverse order?