[cvsnt] OT: Which VS6 files to store in CVS?

[Tony Hoyle]

On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 13:04:35 -0500, "Warren, Erik" <Erik.Warren at delta.com>
wrote:

>We keep both a debug executable and a release executable for each project in
>CVS.  We have only been using CVS for a few months but have experienced no
>problems as yet due to file size.
>
Indeed, the slowest part of the RCS parsing is due to processing tags/branches
not building the deltas.  If you're checking out from HEAD there's no work to
do as that's optimised to be the fastest operation - file size shouldn't
affect it (the newest file is stored at the beginning).

If you branch then commit several thousand revisions then it might start to
slow down, however mergepoints will mitigate this somewhat.

Tony