Get source slow in CI when a website project contains a lot of small images

Question

Hi,

I have a website project with a lot of small images (more than 15000), every time CI tools get source code from TFS will take a very long time. If there is a solution can avoid this?

thanks for any help.

Answer 1

You need the SkipClean and SkipInitializeWorkspace properties. This is a cleanest solution. These will manipulate the IncrementalGet and IncrementalBuild properties correctly.

See here and here for more info.

Answer 2

Make sure you are doing an update, not a full/fresh checkout every time. Then you will only pay the price to update the changed file(s), not fetch the entire set of files.

The Hudson's SVN plugin has a checkbox for "Use Update"

If checked, Hudson will use 'svn update' whenever possible, making the build faster. But this causes the artifacts from the previous build to remain when a new build starts.