Re: Nasty assertion error when trying to checkout a tagged revision

[Donald Sharp]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 02:23:43PM -0400, Bruce Pennypacker wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> We have a CVS repository based on version 1.11, and up until now
> everything's been going fairly smoothly.  We're now having problems trying
> to checkout files with specific tags.  The file shown below has about 50
> tagged revisions and all but the one shown below can be successfully checked
> out.  It's only when we try to check out this specific revision that we get
> this huge ugly assertion error.  Anybody have any suggestions as to why this
> is happening?  Also, is there a limit on the number of tags that a file can
> contain?  I searched www.cvshome.org and looked through the CVS book I have
> but didn't find any mention of limits.  Any help would be greatly
> appreciated!
> 
> -Bruce
> 

Not entirely sure what that assertion means( other than it looks
like ,v file might be corrupted, and I could be entirely wrong ).

There are no hard limits to the number of tags that a file can
contain( We have files here with 3k+ tags and branches ).

There are performance limitations though.  The more tags and
branches that you have implies that your ,v files are getting
very large.  This means it will take longer to read the ,v files 
and have it do work.

As to when it becomes unuseable that's been a matter of debate
recently ;)

donald