Re: VCP allocation problems

On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 03:10:09PM -0700, Sammy Shreibati wrote:
> Hi, 
>      So, I found out that what went wrong with that file. The file seems
> to be 500Mb or so and it chokes up the server. I have a lot of these
> errors and all of them coming from CVS/.../Attic. Is there a way for VCP
> to skip over Attic folders? 

Hmmm, not at present, though I think it would be a reasonably easy
add-in.  However, it's deceptively attractive in that it seems to be a
handy fix, but does destroy a little or a lot of history (deleted files
are often required to build the previous version :).

Are you *sure* you don't want them?  If not, you might try mv(1)ing your
Attic directories out of the CVSROOT tree (be sure nobody's using CVS
though :).

At some point, we'd like to extend VCP's ability to read CVSROOTs
directoy (right now it'll scan local CVSROOTs directly but then use the
cvs binary to check files out.  I think it's a relatively easy job to
extract files directly, but I worry about doing it efficiently and
without consuming all memory in situations like yours.

- Barrie