The pain of committing ChangeLogs...

[Bryce McKinlay]

> I'm on a sucky 56K link, and increasingly I'm getting the following
> sequence of events:-
>
> 1) cvs update ChangeLog [3 minute+ server-end delay]
> 2) cvs commit ChangeLog blah [3-minute+ server-end delay]
> 3) cvs server: ChangeLog not up-to-date coz some $%!@#^ has committed
>    something on their super-fast, or local, connection [another 2 minute
>    delay while conflict downloaded] in the meantime
> 4) resolve ChangeLog conflict
> 5) go back to 1 :(
>

One suggestion:  if you can tell your modem to connect at 33K instead
of 56K, you may actually get a much faster upstream connection. I
found that this would significantly speed up cvs (but then again, slow
down your web browsing). Of course, in this age of ADSL and super fast
trans-pacific cables, my commits are usually now pretty much instant
;-)

regards

  [ bryce ]