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Date:      Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:30:34 +0200
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
Cc:        Freddie Cash <fjwcash+freebsd@gmail.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 7.0-BETA1.5 ISO/ftp
Message-ID:  <20071025223034.GA45394@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <472113A8.5070700@gmail.com>
References:  <200710252120.l9PLKYFJ041330@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> <200710251447.54011.fjwcash%2Bfreebsd@gmail.com> <47210FBE.6080803@gmail.com> <47211452.4080905@elischer.org> <472113A8.5070700@gmail.com>

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On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 06:07:36PM -0400, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> 
> >
> > except for those of us who mirror the cvs tree.
> >
> 
> My understanding is local mirrors are discouraged unless you have a
> large local install base
> 

I have never heard any such thing.  Using cvsup to update a local copy of
the repository should not be significantly more resource demanding (on
either server or client) than using it to maintain a checked out tree.

It should actually *reduce* load on the freebsd.org servers since I can do
things like checking the commit history of a file, or comparing arbitrary
revisions of files, locally without having to contact any freebsd.org
servers.  I do such things fairly often, and I guess most of the FreeBSD
developers also do it.

It also makes it *much* easier to maintain local modifications to the source
tree, without any risk that they will be overwritten when I update the
source.





-- 
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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se



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