[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry Jones) writes: > Ian Lance Taylor writes: > > > > It was not the case formerly that CVS read the entire RCS file to > > retrieve the head revision. I haven't looked at the current code. > > But previously CVS would just read the RCS header (including all the > > tags), and then only read revision text as required. > > That's partially true -- CVS does just read the header to start, but > whenever it needs to read any revision text, it reads all of it.
No, CVS doesn't read the whole RCS file. Look closely at RCS_checkout and RCS_deltas. They stop reading once they have the text they need. Ian _______________________________________________ Bug-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cvs
