On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 01:26:57PM -0500, Derek R. Price wrote:
> Donald Sharp wrote:
>
> > The thing that really concerns me about this is that the history file
> > can get quite large and will tend to grow much quicker now with these
> > changes. For instance we had a repository with a history
> > file that was 118megs. Parsing that took quite some time, and in the
> > end we just removed the history file as that we didn't feel that it
> > actually provided us with usefull information.
>
> How long did it take to build a history file that big? How big was the project?
Hrmmmm...
Not too terribly long. My recollection was that it took only a matter of
months to get a 20meg file( after we deleted it the first time ).
The project is quite huge... and there was/are lot's of files in the
repository with a rather large number of tags.
donald
>
> I would have thought checkout records were overkill. You know what might be
> interesting in conjunction with this. A config file string that took the same flags
> which can be passed to 'history -x' and filtered records *before* they were written
> to the history file.
>
> Derek
>
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