"Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire file"

[Victor Sudakov]

David Kelly wrote:
> 
> 
> > Colleagues,
> > 
> > Am I the only one to have this problem? 
> 
> 
> No.
> 
> Telling you more than I know: FreeBSD.org is moving (or has moved)
> from CVS to SVN. Is my guess that what we are seeing is an artifact
> of that move where data is hacked into cvs compatible format and all
> cvsup can do is pull down the entire file.

And nobody cares?

> 
> I would be happy to use svn as I do for my own projects.

To run a cvs repository, you just need /usr/bin/cvs started from
inetd. It is even in the base system. 

To run a subversion repository, you need much more infrastructure and
more overhead (lots of dependencies from ports, probably a Web server,
a database backend etc).  Besides, cvs is conveniently integrated with
Kerberos (we use :gserver: all the time) which I am not sure is
possible with subversion.

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
sip:sudakov at sibptus.tomsk.ru