From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 7 12:30:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA24894 for current-outgoing; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 12:30:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA24889 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 12:30:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA06226; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 13:27:15 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199602072027.NAA06226@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Please don't shoot me for asking this stupid question. (fwd) To: coredump@nervosa.com (invalid opcode) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 13:27:14 -0700 (MST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "invalid opcode" at Feb 6, 96 07:42:06 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > But what is the difference between sup and cvs? Is cvs used only to > retain revision information? Or can it be used as a way to update the > sources as sup does? Also, has anyone seen sup start totally retrieving a > tree you already have. I ran it today off of sup.freebsd.org, and it > started to redownload the entire gnu-current tree, the /usr/sup directory > is intact, my standard-supfile is fine, and the last.current is dated > februrary 3rd, why would it do this? Any help appreciated. man cvs man sup CVS is a version control system. It can also act as a client/server for a remote repository. SUP is a distribution/mirroring mechanism. Typical usage: 1) use SUP to mirror a copy of the CVS source tree at intervals (usually under "cron"). 2) use CVS to check out, diff, and path (update/merge) your source changes to the sources before submitting your changes. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.