Subject: Re: CVS Tree
To: Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 03/29/1997 09:35:57
On 29 Mar 1997 11:13:03 +0200 
 Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se> wrote:

 > The differences as to running sup + cvs import is that you maintain
 > the history from the original repository and you just transfer diffs.
 > So, it's not `really different' but sure is more convenient.

Right, so the only real benefits I can see from cvsup are:

	- you get the original log messages
	- consume slightly less bandwidth
	- don't have the transient copy of the source tree

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