On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 09:41:23AM +0100, David Laight wrote: > On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 01:11:11AM +0100, Paul Walker wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 12:17:38AM +0100, David Laight wrote: > > > > > Just don't ever want to find out which revision a line appeared in > > > - especially on a file with a lot of revisions. > > > > Surely you have the same problem with pretty much all RC systems? > > 'cvs annotate' is relatively quick. > For SCCS you can edit the s. file (provided it is accessible). > SVN has to do diffs between all the versions it has lurking. > > NetBSD (which could have the largest anoncvs server that is publically > accessible) has some fixes to cvs to significantly decrease the server > load. One or two people have suggested moving that to SVN, but it > isn't at all clear that SVN could handle a repository of that size. David, cvs annotate is indeed a Good Thing. can you expand on what changes NetBSD has made? C. -- hail eris http://rubberduck.com/
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