Re: tag limits?

[Eric Sommerlade]

We use nearly the same tagging mechanism.
I wrote a shell 'script' continuously tagging a file via pserver with an
increasing tag number.
The tagging process did not slow down after 6000 tags or more, when I
interrupted the script.

The behaviour when checking out or updating with a specific tag is
O(#tags)- 
cvs has to search the ,v files for the appropriate string. 
Unless you have zillions of tags it should be ok.

e.



Mark Hewitt wrote:
> 
> This is the way I advocate CVS usage.
> We use tags of the form 'Build-YYYYMMDD-nn' then
> use a 'Release-NN_MM_XX' tag at the point of release.
> 
> #!/mjh
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Medcoff [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: 02 March 2001 02:05
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: tag limits?
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I've recently read Martin Fowler's paper on continouous integration
> (http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html).
> 
> This paper seems to advocate tagging or "labeling" each build with a
> build number regardless of whether is is any kind of milestone,
> release or whatever.  The paper also indicates that builds may happen
> as often as every 10-15 minutes or so.  This could result in many,
> many tags or "labels" being assigned to a given version of a file;
> could be dozens, or hundreds.
> 
> Can CVS support this?  Is there any limit on tags?  Any comments on
> the whole concept in the context of CVS?
> 
> Regards,
> Chuck
> 
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