Gandalf:~ pteeson$ svn co http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/svn/apl/trunk > svn-log 2>&1
which normally takes < 5 minutes.
However it was still going 15 minutes later. After about 1055 lines everything thereafter is of this form:
>16,000 lines ????? How have I sinned? respect… Peter
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