Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 17:27:35 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rewrite cvsup & portupgrade in C Message-ID: <cck067$2l0v$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <E1Bhd1M-000KEo-Nz@smp500.sitetronics.com> <20040707031735.GA3540@frontfree.net> <20040707041220.GA35497@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <200407062323.02854.kirk@strauser.com>
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Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> wrote: > Not as long as you're on a system that supports it. For example, OpenBSD > doesn't have an m3 port for non-x86 platforms (at least not the last time I > checked). Although that doesn't directly relate to FreeBSD, it's does mean > that cvsup probably isn't as widespread as it would be if it had a nice, > portable C implementation. Enter CVSync. Which is a reasonably nice and portable C implementation of a CVS repository synchronization protocol. No checkout mode yet, though. > Would there be any way to get most of cvsup's functionality out of rsync? No. rsync doesn't support scan files. Also, it doesn't use multiple threads, which should affect performance. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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