Evan McLean wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Was wondering if having downloaded a snapshot and untared it, is it then
> possible to use this as my cvs copy (after doing a cvs login of course).
>
> Or am I better off just doing the cvs checkout from scratch.
Usually. The snapshots are missing the CVS subdirectories so you
cant do a simple `cvs diff' or `cvs update' on the repository.
> Just thought downloading the snapshot might be quicker and use less
> bandwidth. I am familiar with using cvs.
Are you talking about Cygwin? Or about vim?
If it's Cygwin, take a look onto
http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/cvs.html
Corinna
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