From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 27 10:01:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA02056 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 10:01:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA02049 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 10:01:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id TAA20920 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 19:01:41 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.6/brasil-1.2) with UUCP id TAA22327 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 19:00:42 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.7/keltia-2.10/nospam) id SAA07806; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 18:41:18 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19970927184118.14580@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 18:41:18 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I check out a snapshot? References: <199709251416.XAA04104@word.smith.net.au> <2904.875211820@time.cdrom.com> <199709271529.RAA11811@bitbox.follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84 In-Reply-To: <199709271529.RAA11811@bitbox.follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Sat, Sep 27, 1997 at 05:29:23PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Eivind Eklund: > In what way are release tags expensive? I've been thinking of using Because you modify every file in the repository which is a slow operation and that will generate big CTM (usually about 800-900 KB) files. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: There are no limits -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #35: Sun Sep 21 19:28:07 CEST 1997