From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 7 17:23:07 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0729E16A4CE for ; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 17:23:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out012.verizon.net (out012pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA10443D1F for ; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 17:23:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.3] ([68.161.84.3]) by out012.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040607172306.RNIS2198.out012.verizon.net@[192.168.1.3]>; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 12:23:06 -0500 Message-ID: <40C4A479.4010208@mac.com> Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 13:23:05 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a1) Gecko/20040520 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jmlewis@dslextreme.com References: <4c8a408ca184ea2046a.20040607100617.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com> In-Reply-To: <4c8a408ca184ea2046a.20040607100617.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out012.verizon.net from [68.161.84.3] at Mon, 7 Jun 2004 12:23:05 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVS vs CVSup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 17:23:07 -0000 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