From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 19 17:03:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA27530 for current-outgoing; Mon, 19 May 1997 17:03:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA27512 for ; Mon, 19 May 1997 17:03:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA24124; Mon, 19 May 1997 17:03:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199705200003.RAA24124@austin.polstra.com> To: bsdcur@shadows.aeon.net Subject: Re: cvsup 15.0 Newsgroups: polstra.freebsd.current In-Reply-To: <199705191800.VAA04809@shadows.aeon.net> References: <199705191800.VAA04809@shadows.aeon.net> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: current@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 17:03:06 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > i upgraded my cvsup today to the latest. > > lately i remember the lister/proto_out value to have been around 720, > plus minus few. > > now the latest cvsup announces it to be 874, and i cant recall seeing > much of a new files being added to the tree... defenitely not that many. > > so, while this matter remains rather irrelevant, did something change in > the cvsup itself? You are very observant. :-) Yes, it did change. In previous versions, the lister sent only the modtime of each file. Now it sends the file size as well. This adds a small degree of safety, and it doesn't seem to slow down most update runs. Also, the modtime+size are now encoded into a more general set of "file attributes". (If "preserve" is enabled, the file attributes include other things such as owner, group, mode, etc.) The more general representation adds an overhead of a few bytes per file, before compression. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth