Re: CVS on sourceforge

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Thu, 25 May 2000, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> Roman Zippel wrote:
> > > I have some spare time now, so if you give me instructions I'll set up
> > > boothack (?), 2.2.10 and (at least native) 2.3.99pre8 branches (?) so we
> > > can get this thing going.
> > 
> > Do we need branches? As much as I love to have different versions in a
> > local cvs repository, but to do it over a possibly slow link?
> 
> Dunno, Sven suggested that. Does it have a significant impact?

No, since cvs co will download only one version, possibly compressed.

Compare this to bitkeeper, where you do have to download everything (but the
repository files are compressed, unlike with CVS).

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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