Re: CVS Limits

["Roberto C. Sanchez" <roberto@connexer.com>]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 10:33:45AM -0000, Pete Clarke wrote:
> 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.
> 
Have you considered trying to switch to subversion?  I believe that its
limitation is whatever the filesystem can handle.

Regards,

-Roberto

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