QA-oriented features for a version control system

[Branko Čibej]

Zack Weinberg wrote:

>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 :-).

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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