Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 00:10:10 +0900 From: Munehiro Matsuda <haro@h4.dion.ne.jp> To: ctm-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: imp@harmony.village.org, mmeola@uswest.com, mckay@thehub.com.au Subject: Re: CTM mirrors Message-ID: <20010722001010K.haro@h4.dion.ne.jp> In-Reply-To: <200107211308.f6LD8gI43156@dungeon.home> References: <3B576081.AB4CFAF3@math.missouri.edu> <200107201607.f6KG7bo66654@harmony.village.org> <200107211308.f6LD8gI43156@dungeon.home>
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Hi all,
From: Stephen McKay <mckay@thehub.com.au>
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 23:08:42 +1000
::>And cvsup can't? I've run it through many different firewalls in the
::>past, over socks5 proxies and a couple of other strange
::>configurations. I'd be interested to hear how your environment is
::>different than mine that you can't run it.
::
::I don't know how common it is, but at my previous employer, nobody got
::to tunnel anything. CTM was essential. Well, essential if you wanted
::the FreeBSD source. The only other alternative was to download the source
::using a browser (since the gateway required basic authentication). That
::was a tedious manual process.
This was the same kind of reason, I started using CTM.
::Now that I'm doing all this at home, CTM is much better than cvsup since
::it encodes minimal differences (better for my download limit) and is quicker
::(cvsup often pauses contemplating its navel for long periods, and also
::sends a LOT of upstream data, which takes time).
::
::So, I'd say the main advantages are:
::
::1) Firewall friendly (for our disadvantaged corporate friends)
::2) Bandwidth/connection-time friendly (for our disadvantaged home users,
:: including me)
If I may add another advantage, it would be:
3) Ability to keep local changes, by its '.ctm' suffix scheme.
With this ability, I could do some hacking and still get the latest code
updated in '*.ctm' files. And this is the main reason I stll use CTM.
I also use a localy created shell script, that integrates changes from
CTM delta into local CVS tree, which is better than handling everything
checked out from cvsup.
haro
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