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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