[Rd] rsync -> cvs down?

Deepayan Sarkar deepayan at stat.wisc.edu
Tue Jul 20 03:15:55 CEST 2004


On Monday 19 July 2004 14:03, Martin Maechler wrote:
> Note one difference   subversion <-> CVS :
>
> subversion being a 21th century child it rather
> optimizes bandwidth over the expense of disk space:
>
> It keeps files 'pristine' and your modification.
> I.e. you need more than double the diskspace
> but you can be offline to "diff" files !

And similarly, when committing, only the diff's are sent over the 
network.

Deepayan



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