In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >>>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. >> >> There's an internal limit of 10,000 files that can be modified at >> once, which I believe is on a per-repo basis. > >Is that a cvs-pserver.conf entry? or in the CVSROOT files?
At the moment it's hard-coded in the source (src/server.c:serve_argument() ). Please feel free to post a wishlist bug (ideally with a patch! *grin*) and I'll get it fixed in the Debian package. Having it as a setting in CVSROOT/options would be a much more reasonable way to go. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "This dress doesn't reverse." -- Alden Spiess -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
