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Date:      Thu, 31 Aug 2000 18:27:39 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Cc:        nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams), Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>, Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, "David O'Brien" <obrien@FREEBSD.ORG>, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@FREEBSD.ORG>, Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org>, Ade Lovett <ade@FREEBSD.ORG>, Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@FREEBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FREEBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FREEBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes 
Message-ID:  <200009010027.SAA01369@nomad.yogotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <200008312030.e7VKTxG20674@netplex.com.au>
References:  <200008311655.KAA04688@nomad.yogotech.com> <200008312030.e7VKTxG20674@netplex.com.au>

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> > > >> Although it should be a file in CVSROOT, and so will probably turn
> > > >> up with a cvsup of the repository.
> > > >
> > > >Obviously not under CVS control right?  You may need to talk with John
> > > >Polstra about having a file that's constantly changing that is not under
> > > >CVS control, to make sure CVSup will 'Do The Right Thing'.
> > > 
> > > Note that the files in CVSROOT/commitlogs have this property. cvsup
> > > uses the rsync protocol for them.
> > 
> > Yes, but they must be setup 'specially' for this to work well.
> 
> No, it is not required.  cvsup will 'do the right thing' with or without
> any 'special setup'.  The special setup on our cvsup distribution network
> is to disable rsync for CVSROOT as we append to files more often than
> changing them and it's far easier for the internal cvsup append code to
> deal with CVSROOT/commitlogs on a regular basis than to fire up rsync all
> the time on the chance that a CVSROOT file changed.

If you don't use this 'special setup', it takes a *VERY* *VERY* long
time for CVSup to download files over slow links, since it uses an
extremely ineffecient protocol, making CVSup all but useless.





Nate


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