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From: David Leimbach <dleimbac@VerariSoft.Com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 17:02:47 -0700
To: Maxime Henrion <mux@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: cvsup?
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On Jun 27, 2005, at 3:10 PM, Maxime Henrion wrote:

> Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>
>> At 10:19 AM +0200 6/27/05, Maxime Henrion wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> The latest version of the snapshot can be found at :
>>>
>>> http://mu.org/~mux/csup.html
>>>
>>> I'd be interested in knowing if it works fine under FreeBSD/ppc.
>>>
>>
>> I downloaded the latest version, and it compiled without any
>> problems on powerPC, and seems to be working fine.  It is relatively
>> slow, but then that was mentioned on the web page.  But if you're on
>> a platform where we don't have modula-3 support, then it's much  
>> better
>> to have csup as an option, than to have no cvsup-ish option at all!
>>
>> I don't know if csup results in a larger load on the server that
>> it's pointed at.
>>
>
> Yes, csup as it is now should put a much larger load on the server
> because it can't send revision numbers (those are contained in the
> status file) and only sends MD5 checksums, so the server has to guess
> which revision number this MD5 checksum matches.
>
>
>> What I did was 'csup' once, pointing at my own cvsup-mirror.  I
>> compared that to the src tree I had via other means.  I then updated
>> my cvsup-mirror, and then updated both the 'csup' src tree and the
>> 'cvsup' one.  The 'csup' src-tree was updated with all the same
>> changes as the 'cvsup' one.
>>
>
> Great, thanks for doing these tests!
>
> Maxime
>


Nice I'll hopefully check it out tonight sometime :)

Dave