[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry Jones) writes: > SCCS can retrieve any revision in one pass through the file. As you > say, there are the equivalent of "#ifdefs" that specify which revisions > include the following lines , so there's very little processing time, > it's mostly just I/O time. CVS as currently implemented has to read the > entire RCS file before doing anything, so I'd be very surprised if it's > significantly faster.
It was not the case formerly that CVS read the entire RCS file to retrieve the head revision. I haven't looked at the current code. But previously CVS would just read the RCS header (including all the tags), and then only read revision text as required. Ian _______________________________________________ Bug-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cvs
