From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 27 10:15:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA02979 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 10:15:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [194.198.43.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA02967 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 10:15:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) id TAA12084; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 19:15:24 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970927191524.23340@bitbox.follo.net> Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 19:15:24 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: Chuck Robey Cc: Eivind Eklund , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I check out a snapshot? References: <199709271529.RAA11811@bitbox.follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69e In-Reply-To: ; from Chuck Robey on Sun, Sep 28, 1997 at 01:11:58AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, Sep 28, 1997 at 01:11:58AM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Eivind Eklund wrote: > > > > Yes, I tag and then I build from that tag after resyncronizing my > > > local repository. > > > > > > Unfortunately, tags are expensive and you don't just lay them down > > > for fun. > > > > In what way are release tags expensive? > > I'm not sure exactly what Jordan was referring to, but I know that every > time the tree gets tagged, a huge ctm delta is generated. I think this > would mean a lot of net traffic also for folks using cvsup. In that way, > it's very expensive and time consuming. This should be irrelevant for adding CVS tags for each commit, I believe. It will increase the ctm delta size a little, but the ctm deltas would still only refer to files that are modified anyway. (At least that was an expense I knew about - I'm just wondering if there is some hidden expense I _don't_ know about, like files with a huge number of tags being excedingly slow to work with, or somesuch.) Eivind.