[cvsnt] Re: CVS tags and performance

[Tony Hoyle]

Edward Patterson wrote:
> Currently we have over 1600 tags on a very large module (585 MB) in
> our CVS repository. Is a lot of the file size due to the number of
> tags on it? Also, will having a large number of tags on a module
> decrease performance? If so, how does it decrease performance? We
> also have several (less then 10) branch tags on the same module. The
> branches are old, that is we cut a branch and let it die out, cut a
> branch and let it die out, etc.. Do these branch tags decrease
> performance as well?

Tags are really small.. only a few bytes.  The module size is more 
likely due to the number of stored revisions (especially if there are 
binaries in there).  I wouldn't worry about it though... disk space is 
cheap.

Tags don't change the performance measurably.. they have to be parsed 
but it takes only a tiny amount of time compared to the parsing of the 
file itself.

Tony