Re: Idea for reducing disk IO on tagging operations

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Paul Sander (address@hidden) wrote:

Hi Paul,
  Thanks for the reply,

> Everything that Mark says is true.  I'll add that some shops optimize 
> their read operations under certain conditions, and such optimizations 
> would break if the RCS files are updated in-place.
> 
> What happens is that, if the version of every file can be identified in 
> advance (using version number, tag, or branch/timestamp pair) then they 
> can invoke RCS directly to fetch file versions, read metadata, and so 
> on.  This sidesteps CVS' overhead and can increase performance by as 

So are these tricks *never* performed by cvs itself? i.e. would my
trick (if I can solve the interrupted write case) be completely
safe with any use of cvs as long as you didn't access the files
externally?

Dave
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