From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4289 invoked by alias); 21 Sep 2002 00:18:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 4282 invoked from network); 21 Sep 2002 00:18:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (216.138.202.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 21 Sep 2002 00:18:29 -0000 Received: from ges.redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C0E93D34; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 20:18:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3D8BBAD3.3020900@ges.redhat.com> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 17:18:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020824 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Berlin Cc: Keith Seitz , Kevin Buettner , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: branching References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-09/txt/msg00333.txt.bz2 > > In fact, if you really want to be advanced, and not deal with the > slowdown on merged files that haven't been modified by you on the branch, > but have been on the merge (This is hard to explain. If you merge from > the head, and commit the result, it makes a new revision in the file, > even if you haven't made changes on the branch. This eventually makes > accessing the branch *quite* slow), you can just move the branch tags on > the files you haven't modified on the branch, so that they refer to the > new mainline revision. > > Sounds more difficult complex than it is. You don't happen to have a script? (Yes, for long lived branches things do start to get slow). The other option is to fix CVS I guess. Andrew