Team Foundation Dogfood stats

re: Team Foundation Dogfood stats

Raimond Brookman — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 13:56:31 GMT

I was wondering wat the functional difference is between a get and a download in the command stats?

re: Team Foundation Dogfood stats

bharry — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 18:04:33 GMT

That's a good question. The difference is this...

The Get web service call is made to ask the server "tell me what changes I need to make my local workspace match what I asked for". It results in a list of what we call "GetOperations". A GetOperation might tell the client to delete a file, rename a file, download a new version of a file, etc.

The Download web service call is used to download a file to the client. It is most often used by the "Get latest version" user action but is also used in view, diff, undo checkout and others.

re: Team Foundation Dogfood stats

Raimond Brookman — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 01:33:23 GMT

Cool, that makes it a lot clearer. So judging from your stats you have relatively large code bases on which the get is performed because on average a get will result in a dowload of 400+ differencing files.
So I guess the same thing applies to upload an check-ins?

re: Team Foundation Dogfood stats

bharry — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 04:10:43 GMT

Yes, the same thing applies to uploads and checkins.

yes, we get a lot of downloads on average on each get. It tends to be a function of the number of developers and the frequency of gets. We also check in a pretty large number of files every night as part of the nightly build.