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Re: anonymous CVS stuff
On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 01:41:19PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
> In article <m3hfmsxdid.fsf@geoffk.wattle.id.au> you write:
>
> >Would it be useful if the FTP server had a .tar.bz file of a daily
> >checked-out CVS tree (with CVS/ directories and everything)? That
> >way, people could avoid using CVS for initial checkouts of the
> >mainline, which should reduce the load (it would at least eliminate
> >the cost of compressing all those files).
>
> >The idea would be that people could just do
>
> ><ftp "egcs-cvs-daily.tar.bz">
> >bunzip2 < egcs-cvs-daily.tar.bz | tar xf -
> >cd egcs
> >cvs login
> >cvs -z9 update
>
> Not really that nice in terms of bandwidth, but it gives me an idea.
>
> What about rsync ?
>
How about cvsup? It's meant expressly for this sort of stuff.
-- arvind