Re: large commits or small commits?

Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:

>Hi
> I am sort of newbie to version control systems. I searched the archives at
>http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/SearchList?listName=os400 but could not
>find anything related to this issue.
>
>1) As a rule of thumb, would you advice commits involving large amounts of
>changes or small chunks of changes (but done multiple times)?
>
>
>

We generally keep one changeset per commit. That way, we can easily
merge changes between branches.

>2) I tend to do commits involving small chunks of changes each time. Each
>commit will give me one additional functionality or fixes a bug in the code
>etc., But due to this, my repository version number is in hundreds which I
>think is very large. Are large repository version numbers bad in any way? Is
>it something to be worried about?
>
>

Absolutely nothing to be worried about. You would need to do several
thousand commits every hour for many years before you would even have to
think about it being a problem.

-- 
Sly
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