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[John Arbash Meinel]

Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 03:18:46PM +0200 I heard the voice of
> Lele Gaifax, and lo! it spake thus:
>> Maybe you already know this:
>> http://progetti.arstecnica.it/tailor/wiki/CvsRepository#WhyistailorsoslowdealingwithCVS
> 
> Hah.  That could 'splain why the cvs command seemed to take so much
> less time when I ran it manually; it was already close to the second
> boundary.
> 
> Unrelated, but oughtn't Tailor use -R on the CVS invocations?  It
> doesn't look like it would affect this particular issue, but it might
> speed things up by not doing so much frobbing in the repository.

Actually, that isn't true. If you repeat the same update command, the
second invocation sees that the file isn't out of date, so it doesn't do
anything. I think the issue is that CVS is using the mtime of the file
to track whether it has been modified or not, so it always waits 1
second after modifying (maybe before modifying? I don't really know).

But the important bit, is that it doesn't pause unless it actually is
modifying the files.

John
=:->


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