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Re: QA-oriented features for a version control system
Branko Äibej wrote:
>Zack Weinberg wrote:
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>>Kevin Puetz <puetzk@puetzk.org> writes:
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>>>Hmm, I'm going to sound like a bit of an SVN fanboy. Oh well. It covers what
>>>you want to do very well :-). I try not to be a fanboy to anything, but I
>>>do think that in general SVN has done a pretty good job of accomplishing
>>>it's goal of "a better CVS"; new features without earthshaking changes in
>>>philosophy :-)
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>>Is it faster than CVS on equivalent data sets yet?
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>What is "faster"?
>If you only look at branching and tagging, then yes, it's a lot faster
>(but you know that :-).
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>For checkouts and updates over the network, CVS is probably still a bit
>faster on average, but then it doesn't have to handle directory
>versioning and other metadata that Subversion does. We did make
>significant improvements here, though. It's been a while since anyone
>ran a serious performance comparison between CVS and SVN, so it's hard
>to say exactly where we stand.
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Of course, I should mention that it also depends on which protocol you
use: WebDAV tends to be slower than svnserve, and I'm fairly sure
svnserve tunnelled over SSH would serve GCC beetter, anyway.
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Brane Äibej <brane@xbc.nu> http://www.xbc.nu/brane/