Re: CVS Limits

["Pete Clarke" <pete@devilincarnate.eclipse.co.uk>]

> 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.

Is that a cvs-pserver.conf entry? or in the CVSROOT files?