[H-GEN] CVS is very very slow ...

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

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Greg Black <gjb at gbch.net> writes:

> I have one additional data point.  I only use CVS over SSH and I am
> always astonished at just how slow it is

I haven't noticed that CVS is *slow* per se over SSH but I have seen a
lot of problems terminating SSH-inspired CVS sessions:  commits and
logs and such will simply never terminate.  I'm told this is a problem
that gets tossed around between the SSH people and the CVS people.

> In fact, the performance is so sucky that I plan to migrate all my
> software repository back to RCS with some scripting and make rules
> to replace the functionality of CVS.

These days I use RCS unless I'm planning to share development with
others (rare) or I want to have the stuff backed up (FSVO).

jason
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