From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 14 22:00:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA05293 for current-outgoing; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 22:00:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA05287 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 22:00:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id HAA02484 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 07:00:13 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.6/brasil-1.1) with UUCP id GAA09309 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 06:31:39 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.6/keltia-uucp-2.9) id BAA14068; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 01:21:30 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19970715012130.45333@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 01:21:30 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CTM and the Attic References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.76 In-Reply-To: ; from Richard Wackerbarth on Mon, Jul 14, 1997 at 04:35:59PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#3461 AMD-K6 MMX @ 208 MHz Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Richard Wackerbarth: > The tree as distributed by CTM is just the same as you get by running CVSup > on the CVS tree and, for 2.1, 2.2, and current, doing a CVS checkout > against the appropriate tag. Files which are deleted get a one line entry > in the CTM delta to tell ctm to delete the target file. The main problem with CTM is when large number of files are deleted. The deleted files end up in the Attic but get transmitted. Problem is that the delta generation has no concept of "a file being moved"... When Bruce deleted old files from gdb, the CTM delta (compressed!) was 3 MB worth... -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: There are no limits -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #22: Sun Jul 13 22:07:09 CEST 1997