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Thanks for the response. The original thinking behind creating so many branches was that we could have a unique branch for every bug fix or new piece of development work making every change atomic. This means that if a customer decides they do not want to include a particular fix in their build it is possible for us to create a patch only containing the specific fixes they are interested in. This approach worked well initially but as CVSNT has slowed down we are spending more time waiting for branches to be created than actually working on the development! :-) We also use branches for testing; when we are testing a release candidate we merge the relevant bug fixes onto another new branch for testing. Once this is complete we make a final merge of all changes back to the main release branch. I'd welcome any feedback on these arrangements and will keep an eye out for the 2.5.04 release. Regards, Colin -----Original Message----- From: Arthur Barrett [mailto:arthur.barrett at march-hare.com] Sent: 06 April 2007 13:18 To: Colin Fraser; cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook Subject: RE: [cvsnt] Branch creation takes a long time Colin, This can occur under very specific circumstances. Basically it gets harder and harder for CVSNT to find the next free number for a branch. We've had a patch submitted that'll be a part of the next next 2.5.04 build in a few weeks time. Be sure to keep an eye on this list for the annoucement. Also it's an option that needs to be enabled in the control panel (or on linux in the /etc/cvsnt/PServer config file). More info is available in the bug database under bug 4855. http://customer.march-hare.com/webtools/bugzilla/tt.htm However that said, this problem only occurs when there are a LOT of branches, which possibly means that you are not using CVSNT in an "optimal" way. Please describe what business purpose creating so many branches is serving and we'll also try to point you in a more efficient direction. Regards, Arthur Barrett -----Original Message----- From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org on behalf of Colin Fraser Sent: Fri 4/6/2007 6:45 PM To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook Cc: Subject: [cvsnt] Branch creation takes a long time Hi , I have a question about branching in CVSNT - it seems to be getting slower and slower on our repository, it is currently taking over an hour to create a branch across the whole repository. I am running CVSNT 2.5.02 Build 2115 on XP Pro. The repository has about 18000 files and is just over 1Gb in size so it is fairly large, however when we first set it up it took less than 6 minutes to perform the same operation. Can someone tell me if this slow-down is just normal - a product of creating a large number of tags and branches? Should I expect it to get slower and slower? I've been searching around but I cannot find any documentation that covers this. Any responses or suggestions welcome, thanks, Colin Colin Fraser, Development Manager Level Four Software Ltd _______________________________________________ cvsnt mailing list cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt https://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/en.asp#downcvs