Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 13:23:05 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: jmlewis@dslextreme.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVS vs CVSup Message-ID: <40C4A479.4010208@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <4c8a408ca184ea2046a.20040607100617.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com> References: <4c8a408ca184ea2046a.20040607100617.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com>
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Joshua Lewis wrote:
> What is the difference between CVS and CVSup?
The cvsup manpage quite reasonably provides a description:
DESCRIPTION
CVSup is a software package for distributing and updating collections of
files across a network. The name CVSup refers to the package as a whole.
It consists of a client program, cvsup, and a server program, cvsupd.
[ ... ]
Unlike more traditional network distribution packages, such as rdist and
sup, CVSup has specific optimizations for distributing CVS repositories.
CVSup takes advantage of the properties of CVS repositories and the files
they contain (in particular, RCS files), enabling it to perform updates
much faster than traditional systems.
:-) CVS is a software version management system, CVSup is a distribution
mechanism which understands CVS well.
--
-Chuck
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