Using an up-to-date Ubuntu precise 64-bit, checking out a large code base

svn co 

takes hours. Using cygwin or tortoise it takes 5 minutes. After poking around, I found this post which didn't work, but led me to try;

svn co --no-auth-cache 

and the checkout took only the 5 minutes.

So, I have a workaround, but am left wondering if there is something inherently wrong with the Ubuntu installation?

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Through you don't say what was the repositories, of course it could take hours to clone the complete repository (hold your horses before cloning the linux kernel!) so, the time that it takes to clone the repository is perfectly normal and it has other factors like the bandwidth, the load of the SVN server, IPv6, etc. You don't provide more information that could nail the problem.

On the other hand, the --no-auth-cache switch just force your SVN to ask you for credentials in case you are accessing a protected repository. If there is any problem then is with the authentications methods stored in your configurations.

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