Use the batch API for the Fetch Now link

A big /agree from me. I thought about this quite a bit while refactoring things on the svn end to use svnlib. Although integrating it properly with the OOification is going to entail some careful thinking - probably the best way to do it will be to do a thin batch implementation in vcsapi, leaving as many of the implementation details as possible up to the backend, to be determined at runtime.

Yeah, totally. The current method of retrieving logs is neither scalable nor user-friendly, it would be sooo cool to have it based on Batch API instead. sdboyer's comment about a thin wrapper and a backend-defined implementation are spot on. (Probably each backend would query a fixed number of commits per batch, or similar.)

If you're fine with it, I'd like this issue to be in the versioncontrol issue queue.

Yep, it seems like the best solution (I remember I got a timeout on my first git backend try fetching gpodder git repo this way :-D)

Let's try it after finish oo-ification? (I can't avoid smiling each time I wrote this word :-p)

still planned

not a good candidate for batching, because sync is a one-time operation.