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OT: CVS management (was: Re: Manual filenames)



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.
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