Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 17:03:06 -0700 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: bsdcur@shadows.aeon.net Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup 15.0 Message-ID: <199705200003.RAA24124@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199705191800.VAA04809@shadows.aeon.net> References: <199705191800.VAA04809@shadows.aeon.net>
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> i upgraded my cvsup today to the latest. > > lately i remember the lister/proto_out value to have been around 720, > plus minus few. > > now the latest cvsup announces it to be 874, and i cant recall seeing > much of a new files being added to the tree... defenitely not that many. > > so, while this matter remains rather irrelevant, did something change in > the cvsup itself? You are very observant. :-) Yes, it did change. In previous versions, the lister sent only the modtime of each file. Now it sends the file size as well. This adds a small degree of safety, and it doesn't seem to slow down most update runs. Also, the modtime+size are now encoded into a more general set of "file attributes". (If "preserve" is enabled, the file attributes include other things such as owner, group, mode, etc.) The more general representation adds an overhead of a few bytes per file, before compression. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth
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