From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 10 06:03:56 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C9F716A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 06:03:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDBE443D3F for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 06:03:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) id j1A63ieE092288; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:03:44 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:03:44 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Chuck Swiger Message-ID: <20050210060344.GA54763@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200502061104.37960.reso3w83@verizon.net> <68a08ad2f9cff22dfa603b47311158cd@beforever.com> <20050209145329.GA27679@wirehub.nl> <20050209.082507.35867907.imp@bsdimp.com> <420AF652.7040308@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <420AF652.7040308@mac.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.7i cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: "M. Warner Losh" Subject: Re: The case for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 06:03:56 -0000 In the last episode (Feb 10), Chuck Swiger said: > M. Warner Losh wrote: > >In message: <20050209145329.GA27679@wirehub.nl> > > Robert Joosten writes: > >:> Besides, it sounds like CVSUP will soon be replaced by something > >:> much more efficient. > >: > >: http://subversion.tigris.org/ ? > > > > He said something more efficient. cvsup is extremely efficient in > > using all the bandwidth available to it, in both directions. > > subversion, while it has many other virtues, hasn't optimized the > > transport layer to such a large extent... > > A good point. On the other hand, Subversion removes the need to > perform network access to do common operations like diff and > annotate. That's invaluable for people who use a laptop while > commuting and are w/o network access for a time. That's what cvsup does, you know :) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com