Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:12:51 +0200 (CEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Darkstar Development Project |
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On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 02:39:42PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > > On the other hand, if you do a > > > > find . -type f | xargs touch > > time cvs update . > > > > it will melt down your DSL line for what seems forever. I killed it after > > 20 minutes, I have better things to do with my bandwidth. It's pretty > > clear that CVS is comparing timestamps so if your files get modified at > > all, it's going to transfer them to see what needs to be updated. The > > same sort of "touch all, then update" operation in BK has no effect on > > performance, BK doesn't do its work that way. > > >From some random Linux source tree's .hdepend: > > /usr/people/ralf/src/linux/linux/include/asm/sn/sn0/ip27.h: \ > /usr/people/ralf/src/linux/linux/include/asm/mipsregs.h \ > /usr/people/ralf/src/linux/linux/include/asm/sn/addrs.h > @touch /usr/people/ralf/src/linux/linux/include/asm/sn/sn0/ip27.h > /usr/people/ralf/src/linux/linux/include/asm/sn/sn0/arch.h: \ > $(wildcard /usr/people/ralf/src/linux/linux/include/config/sgi/sn0/n/mode.h) > @touch /usr/people/ralf/src/linux/linux/include/asm/sn/sn0/arch.h > [...] > > Linux, born to be CVS worst case ...
Which also hinders compiling kernels in `cp -rl'd read-only trees...
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
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