On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 07:46:28PM -0500, Robert Schaefer wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Xavier HUMBERT" <xavier@xavhome.fr.eu.org>
> To: "NetBSD-current" <current-users@netbsd.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 01:09 PM
> Subject: Re: Trouble checking out CVS src
> 
> 
> > In message
> <Pine.NEB.4.43.0202201107370.26193-100000@despair.immanent.net>,
> > Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> >
> > >You might try using "ssh" to connect to anoncvs. In addition to setting
> > >"CVSROOT" to "anoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.org:/cvsroot", set also "CVS_RSH"
> > >to "ssh".
> >
> > Cvs works *much* better with SSH. I don't known why.
> 
> Just out of curiousity, what is *much*?  Less delays?

AFAICT, "much" is "beats hell out of the CVS server and takes a lot
longer, thus leaving you much more likely to experience an incomplete
or inconsistent checkout".