Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 7 Apr 1997 19:53:37 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        eivind@dimaga.com (Eivind Eklund)
Cc:        avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: on the subject of changes to -RELEASEs...
Message-ID:  <199704071023.TAA07253@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970407105455.00fbc100@dimaga.com> from Eivind Eklund at "Apr 7, 97 10:54:57 am"

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Eivind Eklund stands accused of saying:
> 
> >Sure, CVS might be superior to using diffs, BUT, big BUT here, using CVS
> >will require TWICE the space to store the source.
> 
> Eh?  If you want the entire CVS-repository, it will require 10 times the
> amount.

This is Just Not True.

cain# du -s /local1/ncvs /local1/playpen/2.2
300870  /local1/ncvs
173868  /local1/playpen/2.2

-- 
]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer        msmith@gsoft.com.au             [[
]] Genesis Software                     genesis@gsoft.com.au            [[
]] High-speed data acquisition and      (GSM mobile)     0411-222-496   [[
]] realtime instrument control.         (ph)          +61-8-8267-3493   [[
]] Unix hardware collector.             "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick  [[



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199704071023.TAA07253>