Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 18:39:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: laying down tags Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906191832080.47432-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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I notice that in the last 6 months a change has occurred in how we use our cvs tools, in that there's a great increase in the usage of tags. Every time someone lays down a tag it permanently grows the cvs archive. Has anyone looked recently at the size of that darn thing? It's getting very distinctly overweight. I know that ports have a lot to do with the growth of cvs, but not all by a long shot. I also notice that while I often want to see the last version of a particular port, I can not remember, ever, needing to see more than that. The ports tree's profusion of 2-4 versions of the same piece of software, often with little justification (as long as packages exist), is also greatly adding to the cvs archives corpulent state. I'm wondering if maybe permission to lay down a tag shouldn't be reserved to core, just because it might serve as a speed brake. I don't want to eliminate the process, but we're overdoing it. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic and jaunt, both FreeBSD-current. (301) 220-2114 | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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