[cvsnt] Re: Repository TAG behavior

[Tony Hoyle]

Bo Berglund wrote:
> But any operation involving one of our binary files (exe files with
> about 100-200 revisions) will take a *long* time, be it tag or log or
> anything else. It seems like CVSNT must wade through everything in the
> 200+ Mb RCS file to just check the log (which sits at the top of the
> file). Tag is the same.

cvs log loads the entire file, because it calculates statistics about 
the revisions too.  log is the slowest operation cvs can do.

Tag is reasonably fast... it still needs to create a copy of the file 
with the tag in though so your disk speed matters a lot.

Tony