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Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 13:33:22 +0200
To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@dimaga.com>
Subject: Re: on the subject of changes to -RELEASEs...
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At 07:53 PM 4/7/97 +0930, Michael Smith wrote:
>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

Whoops - I was thinking of kernel sources.  My fault.



Eivind Eklund perhaps@yes.no http://maybe.yes.no/perhaps/ eivind@freebsd.org