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List: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Subversion problems
From: Scott Wheeler <wheeler () kde ! org>
Date: 2005-02-18 19:40:30
Message-ID: 200502182040.30494.wheeler () kde ! org
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On Friday 18 February 2005 20:32, Charles Samuels wrote:
> As an aside, I think the "a branch is just a copy into another directory"
> is a silly method. You could have O(1) branching with a cvs-style
> branch-tag, and the svn developers chose not to. I really don't like that.
-pedantic
CVS branching is also O(n) and actually I'd guess that the constant is in
effect higher as branch information is written to the top of the file and
rewriting the file is probably slower than copying it.
If you were referring to space, well, it's still O(n), just with a much
smaller constant.
-Scott
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