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Date:      Tue, 15 Jul 1997 01:21:30 +0200
From:      Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CTM and the Attic
Message-ID:  <19970715012130.45333@keltia.freenix.fr>
In-Reply-To: <AFF005F2-8F60D@204.69.236.50>; from Richard Wackerbarth on Mon, Jul 14, 1997 at 04:35:59PM -0500
References:  <AFF005F2-8F60D@204.69.236.50>

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According to Richard Wackerbarth:
> The tree as distributed by CTM is just the same as you get by running CVSup
> on the CVS tree and, for 2.1, 2.2, and current, doing a CVS checkout
> against the appropriate tag. Files which are deleted get a one line entry
> in the CTM delta to tell ctm to delete the target file.
 
The main problem with CTM is when large number of files are deleted. The
deleted files end up in the Attic but get transmitted. Problem is that the
delta generation has no concept of "a file being moved"...

When Bruce deleted old files from gdb, the CTM delta (compressed!) was 3 MB
worth...
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: There are no limits -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #22: Sun Jul 13 22:07:09 CEST 1997



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