> >>>
> >>> In Tortoise open your repo browser. Find the tag in question. Right
> click
> >>> on the tag folder and select "Show Log". At the bottom of the log
> dialog
> >>> click the "Stop on Copy" check box. Look in the Action list. If you
> see one
> >>> log item and action there "Added" with a single Path/Copy From Path
> then
> >>> this was an svn copy.
> >>>
> >>> If you see many log items there with tons of files added then it
> probably
> >>> imported each file into the tag separately.
> >>
> >>
> >> Please take a look at the attached image (if this mailing-list
> doesn't
> >> filter it). Indeed, for a certain revision (85361) whose date
> corresponds
> >> to PVCS days, there are a lot of "added". I suppose this is what
> you meant
> >> by "imported each file into the tag separately".
> >
> > Actually, that's not true: the revision you're showing contains
> > "Added" actions, but the column "Copy from" is also filled, that
> tells
> > me this revision was created efficiently. It would be interesting to
>
> There's something mental about that 'tag'. It's the same file at the
> same revision copied many many times, each time to a different tag.
> This looks like it builds a tag from copies for each member of the
> tag.
>
> Those copies are 'cheap' but enough of them adds up. For tagging to
> really be cheap you would need to see something like "cp .../foo/trunk
> .../foo/tags/X" - tagging the entire trunk at a time, not a tag per
> file.
Yes, but if you look at his image he was showing a log of the /tag path, not a single tag folder. I am guessing if he looks at a single tag folder that is what he will see.
BOb
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