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Re: cvs update new directories


From: Larry Jones
Subject: Re: cvs update new directories
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 10:28:13 -0500 (EST)

address@hidden writes:
> 
> thing I could not undstand was there were to Entries, one is Entries and
> another is a new Entries.Log in the CVS directory (which I don't have the
> Entries.Log in my copy). Why the CVS server created another Entries.Log?

Entries.Log is an optimization to allow incremental updates to Entries
without having to completely rewrite it each time.  Eventually, Entries
is rewritten with all the changes and Entries.Log is deleted.  For more
details, see the manual:

        <http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/cvs-1.11.22/cvs_2.html#IDX41>

-Larry Jones

These findings suggest a logical course of action. -- Calvin




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