Re: [HACKERS] CVS target for docs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From The Hermit Hacker
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Msg-id Pine.BSF.4.05.9903212339150.48962-100000@thelab.hub.org
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] CVS target for docs  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom, Michael doesn't work on anything else other then docs and ecpg...why
would he want to update everything?

Right now, to get at ecpg, he check's out 'pgsql-ecpg'...and pgsql-doc is
always an available module...

Not sure why such a simple thing needed to be so complicated :(


On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, Tom Lane wrote:

> > I'm currently thinking about moving to cvs completely but wonder how much
> > more network traffic this will cause.
> 
> FWIW, I've been using remote cvs from my home machine and it seems to
> work very well, and reasonably speedily.  I ran a "cvs update" on the
> Postgres tree just now, while watching hub's CPU load via "top" in
> another window.  Elapsed time was 2m 45s, and the server's CPU usage
> on hub never got above 3%.  This run only had to pull a couple of files,
> since I'd just updated yesterday --- a typical run probably takes more
> like 4m or so.  Network bandwidth doesn't seem to be the limiting factor
> in an update (to judge from das blinkenlights on my router), though it
> is the bottleneck in a full checkout.
> 
> If what you're currently doing is cvs or cvsup into a local directory
> at hub, then transferring the files to home via tar and ftp, I've got
> to think that remote cvs is a vastly more efficient and less error-prone
> solution.
> 
> BTW, I recommend putting
>     cvs -z3
>     update -d -P
>     checkout -P
> in your ~/.cvsrc.  The first of these invokes gzip -3 compression for
> all cvs network transfers; that should take care of bandwidth problems.
> The other two make the default handling of subdirectories more
> reasonable.
> 
>             regards, tom lane
> 

Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
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