cvsup?

[Maxime Henrion]

Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 10:19 AM +0200 6/27/05, Maxime Henrion wrote:
> >
> >The latest version of the snapshot can be found at :
> >
> >http://mu.org/~mux/csup.html
> >
> >I'd be interested in knowing if it works fine under FreeBSD/ppc.
> 
> I downloaded the latest version, and it compiled without any
> problems on powerPC, and seems to be working fine.  It is relatively
> slow, but then that was mentioned on the web page.  But if you're on
> a platform where we don't have modula-3 support, then it's much better
> to have csup as an option, than to have no cvsup-ish option at all!
>
> I don't know if csup results in a larger load on the server that
> it's pointed at.

Yes, csup as it is now should put a much larger load on the server
because it can't send revision numbers (those are contained in the
status file) and only sends MD5 checksums, so the server has to guess
which revision number this MD5 checksum matches.

> What I did was 'csup' once, pointing at my own cvsup-mirror.  I
> compared that to the src tree I had via other means.  I then updated
> my cvsup-mirror, and then updated both the 'csup' src tree and the
> 'cvsup' one.  The 'csup' src-tree was updated with all the same
> changes as the 'cvsup' one.

Great, thanks for doing these tests!

Maxime