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Re: Weekly snapshot re-engineering suggestion
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- To: <Robert_K_Cook at comerica dot com>
- Cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 20:08:05 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: Re: Weekly snapshot re-engineering suggestion
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 Robert_K_Cook@comerica.com wrote:
> It is my understanding that the reason only one branch is available is not
> really a disk space issue, but instead a time issue since CVS server is so
> slow at tagging. The greater question then should be: are those
> particular CVS snapshot tags even necessary?
It's not a time issue. The cvs server is slow, and running bzip2 is slow,
but the tagging got a lot faster when the partition was reformatted with a
larger block size. There is a disk space issue (at least until the new
machine is set up); old snapshots need manually deleting quite frequently.
But mainly no-one has contributed the work, which needs to include the
snapshot system keeping track of its persistent state (last snapshot date)
for multiple branches, and arranging for the first snapshot on a new
branch to have diffs generated from the previous mainline snapshot.
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk