Re: CVS repository rsync - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Neil Conway
Subject Re: CVS repository rsync
Date
Msg-id 1161280930.5212.5.camel@localhost.localdomain
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In response to CVS repository rsync  ("Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net>)
Responses Re: CVS repository rsync  ("Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net>)
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On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 19:52 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> I've set up my laptop to sync down the full cvs repository using rsync
> (remember - windows = no cvsup).

Yeah, I do this as well, and for similar reasons (cvsup is unmaintained
and annoying to build, at least on AMD64/Debian).

> This works well, except every now and
> then (not every time, but definitly often enough to bother me) it
> resyncs the entire repository, and not just the files that have had
> commits to them.

I haven't noticed this personally, although I might have just missed it.
Are you sure you're not just noticing the times when a new release has
been tagged? (Tagging in CVS requires touching all tagged files.)

-Neil




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