[Monotone-devel] Re: network costs of history copying (was Re: Monotone server unreachable)

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Nathaniel Smith <address@hidden> writes:

> [...]  It's also worth noting that you never need to pay this cost
> again, whereas with a system like CVS every time you want another
> working dir to work on a branch or the like, you have to do a new
> checkout from scratch.  [...]

More sophisticated users of CVS may first duplicate an existing
working tree to use as the basis of a large new branch checkout.  Then
again, since cvs checkouts are so fast (relative to monotone, say),
there is often little need for this.

- FChE