Re: creating and removing and creating and removing....

[Larry Jones]

Perry E. Metzger writes:
> 
> Well, it currently is wasting literally a half hour to an hour of disk
> thrashing for a lot of people, and it will only get worse.

Is that just creating/deleting directories in the sandbox, or does it
include wading through the repository looking for stuff to checkout and
not finding any?  You still have to do the latter in any case.

> I would imagine the right approach is the latter -- deferring creation
> until the first file would be checked out.
> 
> What code sections should I be looking at?

Pretty much all of checkout.c and update.c.  Currently, the code creates
directories with their administrative files and changes into them as it
goes; what you're talking about is a major change to the architecture.

-Larry Jones

Hmph. -- Calvin