Labeling

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 6:59 am

If I label my code, does the disk space double? For example, if I have 10 folders and 100 files in Vault and I label the root of the project with a lable "1.0" does Vault create two sets of files. The currently checked in version and the labeled version?

Thanks

Tom

Post by **jeremy_sg** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 7:35 am

No. Labels in Vault are light-weight, just as labels in VSS were. Data is not copied.

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 7:37 am

Jeremy:

So what does a label do and how much space is used by Vault?

Post by **jclausius** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 7:44 am

Label is used to retrieve a historical version of some object(s). Bascially, a label takes a "picture" of object being labelled. So when you want to retrieve something, the definition creates the structure and uses the pointers their to send back any files to the client.

The storage of this "picture" is basically a small definition of all sub items found within the label.