[cvsnt] Re: CVS Use case

Rick Genter rgenter at silverlink.com
Fri Apr 22 18:34:12 BST 2005


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org] On
Behalf Of Matt Schuckmann
> Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 12:37 PM
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> Subject: [cvsnt] Re: CVS Use case
> 
> No I'm not worried about that, imo Merge Points are one of the best
things
> that could have been added to the tool. No I'm worried more about
applying
> 8000 branch tags every time someone starts a new task, and possibly
another
> 8000 tags if you apply a branch point tag which you still need if you
want
> to do a diff between the branch point and the branch tip (or write a
script
> to do it). We can break up the project to a limited amount but not
much.
> Maybe I'm being overly concerned here and it's really no big deal, it
looks
> like it takes about 10 min to tag all these files which isn't too bad.

FYI, we run CVS (the cvshome.org version of CVS, not CVSNT) on an
OpenBSD box with 128MB of RAM (!) and to tag our entire repository of a
little over 14,000 files only takes about 2 minutes...
--
Rick Genter
Principal Engineer
Silverlink Communications
<mailto:rgenter at silverlink.com>
(781) 272-3080 x242



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