Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Working out a branching scheme [was: tag --seal --fix]

[Aaron Bentley]

Tom Lord wrote:
>     > From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>

>     > I don't see any problem with going into
>     > the thousands at least.

> Thousands and beyond.  To be fair, there's a few obscure optimizations
> that will have to come on line as these edge cases get exercised but,
> once we're into a few thousands of changesets in a version --- if your
> project has more than that in a given year then you are probably out
> of control.

Well, determining the patchlevel is an O(n) operation.  No matter how 
fast it is, it'll be slow if you throw enough revisions at it.  See my 
other post for an optimization that makes the O(n) part a local operation.

Aaron