On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Joel Miller wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>> Is there any reason why we don't allow rsync access to the cvs repo?
>>
> The only reason I can possibly think of is server load, comparing the
> timestamps for every file and directory in a repository for every rsync
> session could be taxing if everyone under the sun and all their cousins could
> do it.
>
> CVSync, on the other hand, can cache those timestamps into a file and send it
> to the client, offloading the comparison workload from the server to the
> client where it belongs.
I'm going to look at installing this also ... what does the client side
need?
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