Re: bk check speed

[email protected] (Larry McVoy) Fri, 25 Mar 2005 09:44:27 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.bitkeeper.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 12:38:24PM -0500, Len Brown wrote:
> I use this in /etc/Bitkeeper/etc/config:
> 
> partial_check: yes!
> 
> But if I don't touch a repo for a while, I still have to wait for a full
> check sometimes when I'd rather not.
> 
> Any suggestions for what "bk check" options I should put in cron to
> a. make checking during the day always be fast
> b. actually do useful checking (my desktop is up 24x7, so expensive
> checks while I'm asleep would be fine)

for i in `cat $LIST_O_REPOS`
do	(cd $i && bk -r check -ac)
done

Once a night at about 2am works for me.  It won't produce output unless
there is something wrong.
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Larry McVoy                lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitkeeper.com