Subject: Re: cvs checkout upon ftp snapshot
To: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/08/2005 20:50:57
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 01:20:08AM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 01:01:09AM +0000, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> >
> > ... and then you can do the update normally. E.g.:
> >
> > cvs -z3 update -A -I! > /var/tmp/src.cvs.log &
>
> Please stop telling people to use cvs -z. It has a significant negative
> performance impact on the cvs server *and* it's buggy, which imposes a
> high administrative cost. We have asked users of our CVS servers to not
> use -z for many years now.
Over dialup 'cvs update' is stupendously slow without -z3.
David
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