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Date:      Tue, 8 Oct 1996 06:34:23 -0500
From:      Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net>
To:        Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Wow, CVSup is cool!
Message-ID:  <l03010508ae7feb4fcae1@[208.2.87.4]>
In-Reply-To: <57ohidg328.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk>
References:  Jake Hamby's message of Fri, 4 Oct 1996 13:50:53 -0700 (PDT) <Pine.AUX.3.94.961004133308.12298B-100000@covina.lightside.com>

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>My desire for this is that I needed to go out and got caught up trying
>to determine which deltas were missing and getting odd files one at a
>time. I really wanted some mechanism that I could just leave running
>while I was out that knew to grab the missing/damaged files. Sup was
>actually quite good at that function and as a one off recovery
>mechanism would still be useful.
>
>Anyone else think this would be useful?

Since this is an infrequent use, it is not worthwhile to support it with a
mechanism as heavy as sup. I suggest that you use "mirror" for this.
By setting the appropriate include/exclude rules, you get just the files
that you want. In my own case, I do not get every base delta. It is
"cheaper" for me to simply keep a few more files to carry me back to an
earlier delta.

What I would like to see is coordination between the sup disptibutions and
the ctm distributions so that you can seamlessly use sup to "fix" a tree
and ctm to routinely update it, or vise versa.





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