* Paul Sander ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi Paul, Thanks for the reply,
> Everything that Mark says is true. I'll add that some shops optimize > their read operations under certain conditions, and such optimizations > would break if the RCS files are updated in-place. > > What happens is that, if the version of every file can be identified in > advance (using version number, tag, or branch/timestamp pair) then they > can invoke RCS directly to fetch file versions, read metadata, and so > on. This sidesteps CVS' overhead and can increase performance by as So are these tricks *never* performed by cvs itself? i.e. would my trick (if I can solve the interrupted write case) be completely safe with any use of cvs as long as you didn't access the files externally? Dave -----Open up your eyes, open up your mind, open up your code ------- / Dr. David Alan Gilbert | Running GNU/Linux on Alpha,68K| Happy \ \ gro.gilbert @ treblig.org | MIPS,x86,ARM,SPARC,PPC & HPPA | In Hex / \ _________________________|_____ http://www.treblig.org |_______/ _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
