Re: about CVS and stuff...

[Michel <dae...@st...>]

Rune Elvemo wrote:

> this week is the last week I'll enjoy having a direct line to the
> internet... from next week on, I'll be using a sloooooooooow modem
> again... (that is, until the school starts in August)...
> 
> anyway.. what are the chances that CVS will be up and running this week ??
> (I mean, *before* the weekend)

I surely hope so... Sven? :)


> downloading the whole  kernel part from the CVS would take AGES using
> modem... (CVS is just the whole source tree uncompressed, right?)

You can have CVS transmit compressed data with the -z option. Sourceforge
recommends -z3 (the number is passed to gzip)


> if I had the basic tree in the first place, and just had to download
> changes, then I guess it would be bareable...

I think so.


Michel


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