[cvsnt] RE: CVS Tagging

[Bo Berglund]

I saw that you already posted this question on the list.
Did someone answer?

I have no knowledge myself. The only authoritative answer would be from Tony I guess but he has been absent from the list for a week or so (vacation maybe).
In any case my guess is that it does not matter much in the general case since the tags are just another small piece of text inside the RCS file anyway. Open a RCS file in an editor and look for yourself.
All tags on tha file are collected up front in the file and can easily be passed over for non-tag operations.
One of our files start out like this with about 80 tags (not thousands of course):

head 1.221;
access;
symbols
 Rel-WSMDB-1-2-109-20041221:1.204
 release_measured:1.195.0.2
 demodb:1.184.0.2
 Branch_Issue9:1.179.0.2
 Rel-WSMDB-1-2-91-20041008:1.179
 BeforeUnicodeConversion:1.178
 xml_language:1.178.0.2
 Beta-WSMDB-1-2-90-20040929:1.176
 Rel-WSMDB-1-1-88-20041021:1.175
 branch_linkedtools:1.174.0.2
 Rel-WSMDB-1-1-82-20040624:1.174
 Beta-WSMDB-1-1-82-20040621:1.174
 JobParam_Branch:1.172.0.2
 Beta-WSMDB-1-1-81-20040607:1.171
 MultiPallet_Modifications:1.169.0.4
 Before_Branch_MPSiemensRPC_MPCharmilles:1.169
 MPSiemensRPC_MPCharmilles:1.169.0.2
 Rel-WSMDB-1-1-79-20040513:1.168
 Rel-WSMDB-1-1-78-20040513:1.167
 Rel-WSMDB-1-1-77-20040505:1.164
 jap_conversion:1.164.0.2
 Rel-WSMDB-1-1-73-20040312:1.161
 WSMDB_March_2004_Release:1.159.0.2
 MP_Configuration:1.158.0.2
 Config21:1.157.0.2
 Rel-WSMDB-1-1-68-20040116:1.157
 Rel-WSMDB-1-0-64-20031208:1.156
 Rel-WSMDB-1-0-63-20031205:1.155
 Rel-WSMDB-1-0-62-20031205:1.153
 Rel-WSMDB-1-0-59-20031128:1.149
 AfterMerging_CellServerSupport:1.147
 BeforeMerging_CellServerSupport:1.146
 Rel-WSMDB-1-0-57-20031120:1.147
 CellServerSupport:1.139.0.2
 Beta-WSMDB-1-0-52-20030920:1.134
 Rel-WSMDB-1-0-50-20030822:1.128
 Rel-WSMDB-1-0-49-20030808:1.125
 Rel-WSMDB-1-0-46-20030601:1.118
 Rel-WSMDB-1-0-44-20030506:1.108
 Rel-WSMDB-1-0-43-20030430:1.107
 Rel-WSMDB-1-0-42-20030423:1.102
 Rel-WSMDB-1-0-41-20030407:1.99
 Rel-WSMDB-1-0-40-20030306:1.98
 Rel-WSMDB-1-0-38-20030120:1.93
 Rel-WSMDB-1-0-37-20021129:1.83
 Rel-WSMDB-1-0-36-20021128:1.82
 Rel-WSMDB-1-0-35-20021125:1.79
 End_EasyRunGeneral_branch:1.48.2.10
 AfterMerge_EasyRunGeneral_branch:1.68
 BeforeMerge_EasyRunGeneral_branch:1.67
 Rel-WSMDB-1-0-32-20021108:1.66
 Rel-WSMDB-1-0-31-20021107:1.66
 Rel-WSMDB-1-0-30-20021004:1.60
 Before_EasyRunGeneral_branch:1.48
 Ver1-0-29:1.52
 Ver1-0-28:1.51
 EasyRunGeneral:1.48.0.2
 Ver1-0-27:1.47
 Ver1-0-26:1.46
 Ver1-0-25:1.42
 Ver1-0-24:1.40
 Ver1-0-23:1.37
 Ver1-0-22:1.31
 Ver1-0-21:1.30
 Ver1-0-20:1.29
 Ver1-0-19:1.28
 Ver1-0-18:1.27
 Ver1-0-17:1.26
 Ver1-0-16:1.25
 Ver1-0-12:1.21
 Ver1-0-11:1.20
 Ver1-0-10:1.19
 Ver1-0-9:1.17
 Dev1-0-5:1.11
 start:1.1.1.1
 jaho:1.1.1;
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date 2005.02.21.19.51.16; author janh; state Exp;



-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Mills [mailto:Kevin.Mills at microfocus.com]
Sent: den 22 februari 2005 12:47
To: Bo Berglund
Subject: CVS Tagging


Hi,
Do you happen to know what effect thousands of tags has on CVS'performance (if any)? Is there any "limit" or recommended tagging style/frequency to keep performance under control?
Thanks.