Re: CVS Limits

[Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 12:23:03 -0500
"Roberto C. Sanchez" <roberto@connexer.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 

We are talking about a transaction limit, not a repository limit. I don't know
if subversion has such limits, but cvs can handle directories with a lot of
files, you just can't update them all at once.

> Regards,
> 
> -Roberto
>