Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 19:15:24 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@bitbox.follo.net> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> Cc: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I check out a snapshot? Message-ID: <19970927191524.23340@bitbox.follo.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970928011026.313D-100000@Journey2.mat.net>; from Chuck Robey on Sun, Sep 28, 1997 at 01:11:58AM -0400 References: <199709271529.RAA11811@bitbox.follo.net> <Pine.BSF.3.96.970928011026.313D-100000@Journey2.mat.net>
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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.
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