From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@redhat.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: time to be serious about dropping CVS
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:34:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3iqbciuvk.fsf@hase.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100108131258.GO4623@adacore.com> (Joel Brobecker's message of "Fri, 8 Jan 2010 17:12:58 +0400")
Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:
> My observations on SVN is that it is a huge I/O hog. I don't know
> what it's doing, and how it encodes it's meta data, but you definitely
> feel it when your home directory is not on a local hard drive.
SVN spreads out its meta data in every tracked directory (like CVS), and
when you do an update it has to update files in every such directory.
Most modern VCS keep the meta data in a single directory.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-08 13:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-01 8:02 Joel Brobecker
2010-01-01 8:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-01 9:00 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-01-01 10:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-01 15:39 ` Matthias Urlichs
2010-01-01 15:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-01 10:26 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-01-01 10:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-01-01 11:03 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-01-01 16:06 ` Matthias Urlichs
2010-01-01 17:57 ` H.J. Lu
2010-01-01 13:00 ` Joseph S. Myers
2010-01-01 14:18 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-01-02 18:11 ` Christopher Faylor
2010-01-02 19:08 ` Christopher Faylor
2010-01-03 13:52 ` Matthias Urlichs
2010-01-08 12:58 ` Phil Muldoon
2010-01-08 13:08 ` Tristan Gingold
2010-01-08 13:20 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-01-08 13:26 ` Tristan Gingold
2010-01-08 13:13 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-01-08 13:21 ` Jonas Maebe
2010-01-08 13:34 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2010-01-08 13:14 ` Jonas Maebe
2010-01-08 18:41 ` Michael Snyder
2010-01-08 18:49 ` Paul Koning
2010-12-20 17:35 ` Joseph S. Myers
2010-12-21 3:27 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-12-21 3:46 ` Jim Blandy
2010-12-21 7:16 ` Pascal Obry
2010-12-21 15:14 ` Tom Tromey
2010-12-21 16:15 ` Christopher Faylor
2010-12-21 18:39 ` Joseph S. Myers
2010-12-21 19:26 ` Tom Tromey
2010-12-21 18:42 ` Joseph S. Myers
2010-12-21 19:21 ` DJ Delorie
2010-12-22 15:23 ` Christopher Faylor
2010-12-22 15:29 ` NightStrike
2010-12-22 16:48 ` Joseph S. Myers
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