On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 07:02:34 +0100 Keith Whitwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Eric Anholt wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 03:55, Felix Kühling wrote: > > > >>On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 17:04:59 -0700 > >>Eric Anholt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>you're a registered developer. Also cvsup is supposed to be easier on > >>>the servers compared to cvs use. > >> > >>Having a local CVS mirror sound cool for me as a modem user. How > >>feasible is it to regularly do a cvsup over a modem line? Is it > >>comparable to rsync? > > > > > > I did it for a couple of years with the FreeBSD repo over a 28.8, which > > is more active than the DRI and at least 10 times bigger I would guess. > > The initial download will take a while, but you can cancel and resume as > > necessary. I don't really know what rsync is like. > > They sound pretty similar. Does cvsup understand things like 'cvs update -j' > or branches? > > Rsync just mirrors files, but does it well. I think the idea is that you mirror the entire CVS repository with cvsup. Then you can do any read-only cvs operations on the local copy of the repository. That includes merging branches in a working copy. For commiting you still have to use the remote repository, though. > > Keith > Felix ------------ __\|/__ ___ ___ ------------------------- Felix ___\_e -_/___/ __\___/ __\_____ You can do anything, Kühling (_____\Ä/____/ /_____/ /________) just not everything [EMAIL PROTECTED] \___/ \___/ U at the same time. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
