From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 27 12:32:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA08627 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 12:32:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (SRI-56K-FR.mt.net [206.127.65.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA08622 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 12:32:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA29923; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 13:30:55 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA27312; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 13:30:50 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 13:30:50 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199709271930.NAA27312@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Eivind Eklund Cc: Chuck Robey , Eivind Eklund , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I check out a snapshot? In-Reply-To: <19970927191524.23340@bitbox.follo.net> References: <199709271529.RAA11811@bitbox.follo.net> <19970927191524.23340@bitbox.follo.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > In what way are release tags expensive? > > > > I'm not sure exactly what Jordan was referring to, but I know that every > > time the tree gets tagged, a huge ctm delta is generated. I think this > > would mean a lot of net traffic also for folks using cvsup. > This should be irrelevant for adding CVS tags for each commit, I > believe. It will increase the ctm delta size a little, but the ctm > deltas would still only refer to files that are modified anyway. All files are modified when tags are put down, so it means CTM deltas and CVS deltas are rather large, although the change for each file is rather small. Nate