Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:21:30 -0700 From: pete wright <nomadlogic@gmail.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com>, Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What replaces csup? Message-ID: <CAGBmCT6Y8%2BwMUWrjDZUqJyFHUowCd80we3Wgx-dGZg1Sqav16w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1209172102400.26215@wonkity.com> References: <D97788AE24B7FFB0C79AA6FB@localhost> <k38bct$ang$1@ger.gmane.org> <780066C6E2FAB67A997876B7@Pauls-MacBook-Pro.local> <20567.50041.903201.979498@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1209172102400.26215@wonkity.com>
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On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, Robert Huff wrote: > >> >> Paul Schmehl writes: >> >>> Does csup use subversion now? Or do we need to use something >>> else to fetch source? >> >> >> As I understand it, for the average user c(vs)up and subversion >> serve the same function using different methods (both in terms of >> identifying what files need to be fetched and actually fetching >> them). At this level of discussion they are mutually exclusive. >> I have switched from csup to subversion for ports and docs. >> After modest preparation it was essentially painless. > > > The difference is that a local svn checkout has all the commit history. A > comparison recently showed 700-some megabytes more space used by the svn > checkout. > > csup updates just the files that have changed without all the overhead. svn > export can get a copy of all the current files, but it copies all of them > every time, not just the changes. > yea i agree with you. i wonder if it would be worth the effort of sharing a svn export via rsync or httpd to make fetching delta's easier and/or more efficient from a base install? -pete -- pete wright www.nycbug.org @nomadlogicLA
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