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Sounds reasonable; I'm up at 2.5.3 which is pretty recent. Is there a link to what is required and how it works? Thanks chuck Bo Berglund wrote: > On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 12:57:16 -0400, Chuck Kirschman > <Chuck.Kirschman at Nosp_am.bentley.com> wrote: > > >>I think this is one of those things that is only seen by larger users, >>but we definitely found it to be a problem. We regularly got up over >>100 MB history files, and some repositories cleared 500 MB and were >>heading for 1 GB. As near as I can tell, CVS still does not have a >>solution to this problem. What we ended up doing was writing a simple >>script to keep roughly the last 3 months of data; usually 30-50 MB. >>This had substantial performance benefits when running a "cvs history" >>command, but smaller effects on other operations. >> >>Rather than lose information, we stored the pieces we clipped out of the >>history files in other files with a time stamp in the name. So now a >>"cvs history" will only show data for the past 3 months. However, when >>we need to go back further, we can use a combination of greps to extract >>the information into a single history file that we can then query. >> >>I do not believe there is any way for the history file in one repository >>to influence any other repository. >> > > > If you have a recent CVSNT server, then why not enable auditing and > switch off the history file stuff altogether? > With a proper database you get so much better possibilities to search > for stuff and create all kinds of reports. > > > HTH > > /Bo > (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)