svn timeout - Re: Espressobin anyone ?

[Trev]

Russell Haley wrote on 27/08/2019 07:58:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 2:15 PM Ronald Klop <ronald-lists at klop.ws> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 23 Aug 2019 00:27:00 +0200, Jeffrey Bowers <khantroll at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> No, unfortunately it still ends in an E000060: Operation timed out.
>>> However, there are files and directories in my local ports directory,
>>>> so it's downloading at least some things.
>>
>>
>> One more option I can think of.
>>    svn checkout svn://svn.freebsd.org/ports/head
> 
> 
> I reverted to using the svn protocol many moons ago because http wouldn't
> work at all. The svn protocol still fails a few times on any given
> checkout, but re-starting the checkout picks up where it left off. I always
> build on a PC so it's not a slow SD card problem, it seems to be a long
> standing issue retrieving source code.

My experience is the opposite - I reverted to using HTTP many moons ago 
because svn stopped working! svnlite checkouts always complete 
successfully for me with HTTP.