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Re: sccs2rcs to perl
From: |
Ian Lance Taylor |
Subject: |
Re: sccs2rcs to perl |
Date: |
08 Mar 2002 19:38:43 -0800 |
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larry.jones@sdrc.com (Larry Jones) writes:
> Ian Lance Taylor writes:
> >
> > 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.
>
> That's partially true -- CVS does just read the header to start, but
> whenever it needs to read any revision text, it reads all of it.
No, CVS doesn't read the whole RCS file. Look closely at RCS_checkout
and RCS_deltas. They stop reading once they have the text they need.
Ian
- Re: sccs2rcs to perl, (continued)
- Re: sccs2rcs to perl, Greg A. Woods, 2002/03/07
- Re: sccs2rcs to perl, Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-, 2002/03/07
- Re: sccs2rcs to perl, Greg A. Woods, 2002/03/07
- Re: sccs2rcs to perl, Riley Williams, 2002/03/08
- Re: sccs2rcs to perl, Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-, 2002/03/08
- Re: sccs2rcs to perl, Riley Williams, 2002/03/09
Re: sccs2rcs to perl, Stephen Rasku, 2002/03/08
Re: sccs2rcs to perl, Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-, 2002/03/08
Re: sccs2rcs to perl, Larry Jones, 2002/03/08
Re: sccs2rcs to perl, Stephen Rasku, 2002/03/08
Re: sccs2rcs to perl, Stephen Rasku, 2002/03/08