We have a collection of 25 or so projects in a source safe database and we want to apply daily labels to each of them. Is there a limit to the number of labels that can be applied?
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No, there is no practical limit. We once did what you ask about - daily builds applied a label with the build number, this went on for several years.
slugster
2010-10-29 11:26:07
+1
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We've been using one repository for 5 years so far. It stores numerous projects and something like ten daily builds run every day on that repository. Every daily build creates a new label on some project every time it runs. So far we haven't seen any problems with possible labels exhaustion.
sharptooth
2010-10-29 11:26:27
@sharptooth - we considered this in our nightly build machine, but ultimately rejected labeling each nightly build - what are the benefits of this decision? Wouldn't it simply clutter the tree?
Nate
2010-10-29 12:10:26
@Nate: With labeling each build you can repeat every build at any moment in the future. For example, you release your software and nine months later you need to produce a patch - a new version of one of the numerous binaries - to address one specific problem. That will be much faster than release the software again. So you just grab all the sources using that label and apply only the necessary changes to them.
sharptooth
2010-10-29 12:30:33