RE: Why does cvs wait to the next second?

[Arthur Barrett]

Urs,

> I have a script that calls cvs checkout hundreds to thousands of times
> and that causes the script to run for half an hour or so instead of a
> few seconds.  The info-cvs archive also suggests using RCS tools
> instead of CVS.  Is it guaranteed that the CVS repository files will
> always have RCS format and RCS tools will work on them?

I agree with all of Paul's comments about adjusting your process.

However.

CVSNT (yes it runs on linux) already has a switch such as you ask:
--nowait

Ie:  cvs --nowait checkout mymodule

This option was added 10-Dec-2009 to 'cvs suite 2009', so will be in
that release and any more recent ones:
http://www.cvsnt.org/pipermail/cvsnt-commits/2009-December/007618.html

Or you can make a similar change to your own CVS source - that is, after
all, the primary benefit of GPL software

Regards,


Arthur Barrett