Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 20:12:05 -0459 (CDT) From: "Boyd R. Faulkner" <faulkner@asgard.bga.com> To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Praise for CVSup Message-ID: <199608100111.UAA14116@utgard.bga.com> In-Reply-To: <199608100056.RAA24189@austin.polstra.com> from "John Polstra" at Aug 9, 96 05:56:38 pm
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According to John Polstra:
>
>
> > Blessed be CVSup. Verily, I have used it and my povray problem
> > hath fled in haste.
>
> Praise is always welcome, of course, but ... I don't understand.
> You're not implying that CVSup fixed povray, are you? I was just
> _sure_ I had taken out the experimental "auto-fix-bugs" feature
> before I made the public release. :-)
Check again.
>
> I wouldn't even ask this, but you said in a different posting that
> CVSup had "fixed something in my tree that sup wouldn't fix." It's
> sort of hard for me to imagine what that might be. If you ignore
> the details, they both do the same thing. Namely, they find files
> that are different on the client and server, and make them the
> same.
>
> Can you give us some details about what you're referring to?
>
Actually, I am. CVSup does more file checking than sup does. You can
end up with files with the right date and size but not the right contents
and, while I may be wrong, sup will not detect this. Since CVSup uses
MD5 (yes?) to ID the files, you are gurarnteed the correct contents.
I was blowing my tree away and resupping pieces but I hadn't got very far.
Whatever was bad is gone now. I can run povray without getting
Floating point errors. I knew it was my tree because I had installed
2.1.5 on another drive in this box and povray had worked.
Maybe I am wrong about how little checking sup does but I don't think so.
Either way, it didn't work. Then it did. CVSup was the step inbetween.
Thanks.
Boyd
> Thanks,
> John
>
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