RE: CVS history file size question?

[Tom Copeland]

On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 15:31, Jim.Hyslop wrote:
> I'm surprised your file is so big. Ours was truncated last May, and it's
> only 14MB now. We have over 100 developers, and the repository is (at last
> count) over 35GB, with a lot of activity. You might consider restricting
> some of the information that gets captured in the history file (see the
> LogHistory entry at
> http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.15/cvs_18.html#SEC180)

At this point (1.1 GB) it might be worth writing a little script to
strip out all the checkout events - assuming you don't need to keep a
record of those...

Yours,

tom