Re: simple performance question on CVS

2003-08-02 Thread Mark D. Baushke
Larry Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mark D. Baushke writes: > > > > The SCCS file format is the one that uses the mechanism you seem to > > believe is a big hit on performance. > > No, it doesn't, although that's a common misconception. SCCS uses an > "interleaved delta" format that allow

Re: simple performance question on CVS

2003-08-02 Thread Larry Jones
Mark D. Baushke writes: > > The SCCS file format is the one that uses the mechanism you seem to > believe is a big hit on performance. No, it doesn't, although that's a common misconception. SCCS uses an "interleaved delta" format that allows it to reconstruct any revision of the file in constan

Re: checkout

2003-08-02 Thread Mark Priest
Since the files you are checking out are read-only the cvs administrator has probably turned on the watch/edit feature. You should use the cvs edit command on files that you want to edit (i.e. cvs edit dummy.c). This will notify the cvs server that you are editing the file and should change the f

Re: checkout

2003-08-02 Thread Aad Rijnberg
Hi, you might have another person watching your file. To make your file writable, you then should issue the command: cvs edit The people who watch this file will then be notified via email that you are editing this file, and the file in your sandbox will become writable. if you want to commit y