Hey Quick note...
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> wrote: > > Subject: Some Notes from the Meeting > Date: Thursday 22 Apr 2010, 16:43:18 > From: Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> > > #. Sawyer mentioned the fact that he believed that creating a branch in > Subversion (using svn copy) was time-consuming for him ("I went to prepare > coffee"). I didn't say I "believed that creating a branch...", I said "in my experience". The difference is that "believe" means "I think it's long, but I don't really know", and "in my experience" means "I tried it and it did take me a long time". > This sounds strange to me, because branching and tagging in > Subversion are reportedly cheap, constant-time O(1) operations, and I've > studied the Subversion architecture to verify it. I often branched the > Freecell Solver's trunk which is 26M in size and it didn't take more than a > few seconds. svn.kde.org has many branches and each of them keeps the entire > KDE source code and is positively huge with 100s of mega-bytes of files. You're on to me, I lied! I fabricated the whole "going to prepare coffee" bit. In fact, it was so blindingly fast (as you demonstrate in your comment) that I was surprised at its speed and held a grudge for Subversion on this topic alone from that point on. I then invented the whole coffee routine (I actually don't drink coffee - ever, only tea) as a cover-up story in case someone calls up on me when I trash Subversion in public. nack. _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
