On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 11:04 PM, sawyer x <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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.
I have not encountered *that* slowness either so maybe there was something in your particular setup that is different from what Shlomi and I have or we were just lucky and the regular case is what you encountered. Or, maybe, you have an extremely fast coffee machine that makes tea. :) Gabor _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
