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Re: Tar with CVS now available
- To: Joe Buck <jbuck at racerx dot synopsys dot com>
- Subject: Re: Tar with CVS now available
- From: Dave Gilbert <gilbertd at treblig dot org>
- Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 20:15:00 +0100 (BST)
- cc: Jamie Lokier <egcs at tantalophile dot demon dot co dot uk>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Joe Buck wrote:
> Jeff, Mark, perhaps it would be an improvement to include the CVS
> directories in the snapshots on a regular basis. Then we could
> encourage people to use FTP the first time and then switch to CVS.
> That would probably reduce load on servers, the first-time cvs
> checkout has to be a lot more expensive than an FTP transfer.
I'd agree with that. The reason I actually created the above tar was that
my ISP gives free access but kicks people off every two hours. With a
wget I can tell it to retry and continue bringing the line up and
continuing from where it left off in the ftp. Lifes harder with CVS.
Dave
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