Comments on: Helps us out, rate NautilusSvn’s performance

By: Jason Heeris

Jason Heeris — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:56:57 +0000

Kilian — you could try the current state of RabbitVCS in SVN if you like (you can even build yourself a quick deb from it if you use Debian or Ubuntu). I recently made some significant changes to things to improve responsiveness and performance (which I meant to blog about but haven’t gotten around to yet…)

See:
http://wiki.rabbitvcs.org/wiki/development/installation
http://wiki.rabbitvcs.org/wiki/development/packaging

By: Kilian Hagemann

Kilian Hagemann — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:35:07 +0000

RabbitVCS (0.12.1) is hardly usable for me as I have a HUGE repository. It’s 16GB worth of documents, images, xml, you name it. It takes forever (~30-60min) to just come up with the first green or red icon. I thought I can live with that as I hardly ever restart my computer but once it’s loaded it’s still quite slow to give me status icons and chows an enormous amount of memory (nautilus 1459M virt/650M res, python service 1093M virt/186M res).

Please could you improve this performance (willing to beta test anything you come up with) as I’m reverting to the command line but my colleagues are not command line warriors like me so they’re stuck…

By: Bruce van der Kooij

Bruce van der Kooij — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:55:14 +0000

Hi Katrin, thanks for the kind words! The reason this isn’t in the official Ubuntu repository is because we haven’t yet tried to get our package accepted into the repo (I consider it a big step).

By: Assoly

Assoly — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:00:24 +0000

Excellent program!
Very good! Author, you are great!
Please ask me, why it isn’t in official repo?
—
Katrin from Russia %)

By: mjohnny

mjohnny — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:58:13 +0000

I’ve been using it for quite a while now, say about a month. Previous OS was Windows Vista. I had tortoiseSVN back then. I was glad to find a similar app on ubuntu.

What annoys me is that whenever I try to open a folder that has svn, it takes me 3 left clicks to open it. (highlight folder then double click). I know it’s a little weird but that’s how I manage to open directories with svn.

It’s still a bit sluggish, but overall, I’m ok with it.

Ubuntu 9.04

By: john

john — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:25:20 +0000

I’m seeing issues when I operate NautilusSVN and TortoiseSVN on the same folder. Try this: dual-boot a machine Linux and Windows (or virtualize one). Share a folder between them. Use NautilusSVN to check out from a repo. Switch to Windows and use TortoiseSVN and make a commit. Switch back to Linux. NautilusSVN no longer recognizes there is a branch checked out in that folder.

The above scenario describes my development environment. I’m doing multiplatform C++ work, and maintain a single folder which is located on a partition accessible to both Ubuntu and XP on a dual-boot machine. Any workarounds would be welcome!

By: Bruce van der Kooij

Bruce van der Kooij — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:17:01 +0000

This functionality has been discussed but not yet implemented, see http://code.google.com/p/nautilussvn/issues/detail?id=21.

By: Faraz

Faraz — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:09:55 +0000

Well, I just found out about NautilusSVN and installed it on Ubuntu (9.04).

It’s amazing.I didn’t notice any delay for repository update (it was a split of a second). Maybe my repos are kind of small (less than 100 files each, about 15 different working copies).

I’ve always envied my friends working with TortoiseSVN on windows. Not any more!

Just a quick question: is there any way to have an emblem for out-of-date working copies? I mean, there’s no UI for svn status really. I understand, if something is locally modified, the emblem shows it; but what about some files being out of date? status command is not available, and emblem doesn’t show that either.

Thanks again and keep up the good work!

By: Nicklas Overgaard

Nicklas Overgaard — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:52:09 +0000

I have just installed the trunk version (Revision 1483) and it’s a lot better!

It’s hard to say if it’s faster, but it is very nice that it is performing the update in the background so nautilus does not freeze.

Keep up the good work!!

By: Nicklas Overgaard

Nicklas Overgaard — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:33:05 +0000

I just installed this awesome piece of software, but i must say, that the repository status updates are very disappointing.

Even on my very small checkouts (around 100 files) it is extremely slow – also on subsequent updates.

I’m running the latest 0.12 beta.

But keep up the good work! It’s nice to finally have found a nautilus plugin which looks like TortioseSVN :)

@Edit
Maybe is should say, that i am using ArchLinux with GNOME 2.26.3