Re: CVS Limits

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

In article <[🔎] 04cc01c70e21$b0561690$6400a8c0@tomsk> you write:
>Hi there,
>
>I have a CVS repository (hosted on Debian Sarge 3.1), and one of the 
>directories has grown in size from a few thousand files, to over 11,000.
>The result of this is, if a wide ranging change is made, the CVS client 
>throws a fit and errors with a protocol error - too many parameters.
>This may not be the place to ask, but does anyone know what the actual limit 
>is? And is it per repository, or on a directory-wide basis?
>I guess if it's a directory limit, I can arrange to have the files 
>segregated - but I am not the only user of the repository so that'd have to 
>be agreed internally.

There's an internal limit of 10,000 files that can be modified at
once, which I believe is on a per-repo basis.

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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