The case for FreeBSD

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Feb 10), Chuck Swiger said:
> M. Warner Losh wrote:
> >In message: <20050209145329.GA27679 at wirehub.nl>
> >            Robert Joosten <rjmlist at xs4all.nl> writes:
> >:> Besides, it sounds like CVSUP will soon be replaced by something 
> >:> much more efficient.
> >: 
> >: http://subversion.tigris.org/ ?
> >
> > He said something more efficient.  cvsup is extremely efficient in
> > using all the bandwidth available to it, in both directions.
> > subversion, while it has many other virtues, hasn't optimized the
> > transport layer to such a large extent...
> 
> A good point.  On the other hand, Subversion removes the need to
> perform network access to do common operations like diff and
> annotate.  That's invaluable for people who use a laptop while
> commuting and are w/o network access for a time.

That's what cvsup does, you know :)

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	Dan Nelson
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