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Date:      Sat, 23 Jan 1999 21:30:07 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>
Cc:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, des@flood.ping.uio.no, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Death to LKM screen savers? (was: Re: HEADS UP: i386 a.out LKM support now an option..) 
Message-ID:  <199901240530.VAA00483@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 24 Jan 1999 00:19:18 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901240016530.55154-100000@bright.fx.genx.net> 

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> On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, John Polstra wrote:
> 
> > In article <xzpyamtnwl0.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>,
> > Dag-Erling Smorgrav  <des@flood.ping.uio.no> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Doh, they were already axed by sos in late December. 'cvs co src/lkm'
> > > still creates directories for them though. I'm sure someone with more
> > > CVS experience than me will be able to explain why :)
> > 
> > Always use "-P" when you check out sources: "cvs co -P src/lkm".
> > 
> > And when you update sources already checked out, use "cvs upd -Pd".
> 
> cvs up (not cvsup) takes me a LONG time to execute, i've been using '-z3'
> for comppression because i'm on dialup, is this ok with you guys?  (it
> doesn't help much though...)
> 
> cvs -z3 up -Pd src
> 
> i'm also using ssh for transport as rlogin doesn't work well for me.

There's no point using ssh and -z3, just compress the ssh session.  
Also, you should try running in readonly (cvs -R) mode - locking is 
expensive.

Finally, why not just use a local repository you weenie?  8)

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