Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Questions from a Subversion user

[Florian Weimer]

John Goerzen <address@hidden> writes:

>> In arch we say "archive" not repository.  And my first impression is to
>> say that the size of the archive is essentially irrelevant.  It is
>> "suitable" for any size archive.
>
> Excellent.  Subversion starts to have some problems when you exceed
> .5GB.

Note that the limiting factor is the size of a project tree right now.
If your system can't cache data im memory whose size is three to four
times the project tree size, arch runs quite slow.

This is just an implementation detail, and not a result of the general
design.  Systems such as CVS use file timestamps to ignore unchanged
files, and arch currently doesn't.