Re: CVS bashing?

[Paul Sander]

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>On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 05:21:26PM -0700, Paul Sander wrote:

>> - The *info files accept a comprehensive list of sources on their command
>>   lines, limiting their scalability.  (After a branch merge on a very large
>>   project, the command line buffer of the shell invoking the *info file
>>   can overflow, causing breakage.)

>I thought all of the *info files worked on subdirectory level only.  You
>have enough files in a single directory to cause an overflow?  :->

>This sounds like it could be somewhat easy to fix.  Do something xargish
>inside of cvs to call them multiple times.

Then you have multiple invocations of the trigger script.  It's better
to use a pipe instead and pass the necessary file list through it.
This is a simple but fundamental change to the CVS design.

>> - The history file grows without bound, and can't be managed in any natural
>>   way.

>A logrotate type of program can't work against history?

It could be done, but you lose the ability to use CVS to read the result.

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