Software is too expensive to build cheaply...

One of the things that was annoying us at Wotif for some time has been how slow our CVS repository had been getting. Doing a tag after a release, for example, could take up to 15 minutes, CruiseControl was taking up to 45 minutes to do a scan, that sort of thing. Basically, the server we were using was almost literally having the hard disks melt... a 4GB CVS repository was being hammered almost continually. So, we finally bit the bullet a few weeks ago, and moved to Subversion, and I thought I'd share the experience.