Re: Branching models

Luiz Daniel Lapolla wrote:

>I'm aware of the performance issue for fetching an old revision in a
>dev-line whith lots of revisions.CVS has the same problem. Currently I'm
>using CVSNT and this issue is not a problem for us since almost all the
>ongoing work is very close to the head.
>
>

Subversion stores files as fully expanded versions, and as deltas
between the versions. It has a fancy algorithm internally so the maximum
number of deltas it needs to apply to get to a particular version
increases logarithmically with the number of versions stored. Basically,
retrieving an old version is pretty cheap.

Cheers,
Mike.

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Received on Mon Mar 8 16:55:53 2004