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Originally Posted by HFWang
Just curious, what extra overhead do you incur from using CVS/SVN over copy/pasting?
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Most of the overhead goes into the metadata tagging along with each commit. This includes version, committer, date committed, any comments made by the committer, and whatever else may fit there.
On another tangent, though, the neat thing about revision tracking systems like Subversion and CVS is that they have niceties for folks working on different systems (e.g., Windows and UNIX). If you'll recall, Windows and UNIX have traditionally used different newline delimiters, and after a while, having to deal with converting and reconverting text formats becomes a bit of a pain. These facilities neutralize that in the commit and make the necessary changes when grabbing the updated sources from the repository.