Re: gcc development schedule [Re: sharing libcpp between GDB and GCC]

Phil Edwards
2002-03-28T20:34:04Z

On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 10:17:03PM -0500, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:
> > From: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>
> >
> > I'll add that this is an argument for a better version control
> > system; most of the changes on the queue inside my head, I would
> > have done on a branch if CVS didn't make branches such a pain.
> > (E.g. it takes about 10x longer to do "cvs update" on the 3.0
> > branch than the trunk.)
> > zw
>
> Yeah, what's up with that? (I thought it was just me.)

I will point out that for doing more than a trivial number of cvs operations,
I saw a huge win after I started mirroring the CVS repository, and then
doing checkouts/updates/diffs from the local mirror. The only time I need
to explicitly talk to the server is for checkins.

Phil

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