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Re: CVS bashing?
From: |
Paul Sander |
Subject: |
Re: CVS bashing? |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Apr 2001 01:12:12 -0700 |
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>On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 05:21:26PM -0700, Paul Sander wrote:
>> - The *info files accept a comprehensive list of sources on their command
>> lines, limiting their scalability. (After a branch merge on a very large
>> project, the command line buffer of the shell invoking the *info file
>> can overflow, causing breakage.)
>I thought all of the *info files worked on subdirectory level only. You
>have enough files in a single directory to cause an overflow? :->
>This sounds like it could be somewhat easy to fix. Do something xargish
>inside of cvs to call them multiple times.
Then you have multiple invocations of the trigger script. It's better
to use a pipe instead and pass the necessary file list through it.
This is a simple but fundamental change to the CVS design.
>> - The history file grows without bound, and can't be managed in any natural
>> way.
>A logrotate type of program can't work against history?
It could be done, but you lose the ability to use CVS to read the result.
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- Re: CVS bashing?, (continued)
Re: CVS bashing?, Paul Sander, 2001/04/11
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Re: CVS bashing?, Paul Sander, 2001/04/11
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