On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 10:55:37AM -0800, Stephen Rasku wrote: > > I believe what he is refering to is that the more SCCS will get slower the > more revisions you have in a file. Getting a file from RCS/CVS should be a > constant time event for the latest version because RCS/CVS stores the latest > revision verbatim. However, as I understand it, SCCS saves each version as > "#ifdefs". I don't think it stores a complete copy of the latest revision.
Almost: SCCS stores the first version ad verbatim, followed by a delta for each version (=revision in RCS-speak). #ifdefs is a C (/C++?) thing. > As such, it will have to calculate what is in the latest version and how long > this takes will depend on how many revisions you have. -- Karl E. Jørgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.karl.jorgensen.com /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign x - Say NO to HTML in email / \ - Say NO to Word documents in email (and Macros!) _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
