CVS vs CVSup

[Chuck Swiger]

Joshua Lewis wrote:
> What is the difference between CVS and CVSup?

The cvsup manpage quite reasonably provides a description:

DESCRIPTION
      CVSup is a software package for distributing and updating collections of
      files across a network.  The name CVSup refers to the package as a whole.
      It consists of a client program, cvsup, and a server program, cvsupd.
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      Unlike more traditional network distribution packages, such as rdist and
      sup, CVSup has specific optimizations for distributing CVS repositories.
      CVSup takes advantage of the properties of CVS repositories and the files
      they contain (in particular, RCS files), enabling it to perform updates
      much faster than traditional systems.

:-)  CVS is a software version management system, CVSup is a distribution 
mechanism which understands CVS well.

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-Chuck