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

[David Seikel]

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 --- Greg Black <gjb at gbch.net> wrote: 
> I have one additional data point.  I only use CVS over SSH and I
> am always astonished at just how slow it is -- in my case, this
> is certainly not caused by DNS lookups or anything like that.
> 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.

If you are migrating anyway, why not go forward instaed of backward?  I'm
currently looking at subversion, which is being designed as a replacement
for CVS, one which doesn't suck quite so much.  Subversion uses an Apache
server with WEBDAV to access the repository over the net.  It versions
whole projects at once, rather than one file at once.  It sends only the
diffs across the network, and can deal with binary diffs.

Sorry, can't remember the URL at the moment, and I'm not at my own
computer.  I'll post it tomorrow if I remember.


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