Quickly get a list of all svn:externals for a remote svn repository
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Solution
As you mentioned, it does consume network bandwidth. However, if you have access to the server where those repositories are hosted, you may run it via `file://` protocol. It is proven to be faster and not network consuming.
svn propget svn:externals -R file:///path/to/repo/Branch
Also, if you had the entire working copy in place, you may also run it within your WC.
svn propget svn:externals -R /path/to/WC
Hope it helps you to achieve the results faster!
Problem
We have an svn repository with lots of directories and files and our build system needs to be able to find all of the svn:externals properties, recursively for a branch in the repository, before checking it out. Currently we use: ``` svn propget svn:externals -R http://url.of.repo/Branch ``` This has proved extremely time consuming and is a real bandwidth hog. It appears that the client is receiving all of the props for everything in the repo and doing the filtering locally (though I haven't confirmed this with wireshark). Is there a faster way to do this? Preferably some way of getting the server to only return the desired data.