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Date:      Tue, 15 Jul 1997 02:07:41 -0500
From:      Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net>
To:        Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CTM and the Attic
Message-ID:  <l03102801aff0d17b8bf5@[208.2.87.4]>
In-Reply-To: <19970715012130.45333@keltia.freenix.fr>
References:  <AFF005F2-8F60D@204.69.236.50>; from Richard Wackerbarth on Mon, Jul 14, 1997 at 04:35:59PM -0500 <AFF005F2-8F60D@204.69.236.50>

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>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"...

The last time that I looked, CVSup still had the same problem. Perhaps the
"problem" is that such movement should not occur in the first place.

Don't blame the messengers.




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