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Date:      Mon, 4 Jan 2010 20:37:49 +0600
From:      Victor Sudakov <sudakov+freebsd@sibptus.tomsk.ru>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire file"
Message-ID:  <20100104143749.GA80433@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20100104133657.GA47668@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
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Erik Trulsson wrote:
> > > SVN metadata changes will appear in CVS as version changes only.  The
> > > most obvious/common case is branching - branching a native CVS repo
> > > just adds the branch tags.  Branching a SVN repo replicates the tree
> > > and the SVN->CVS exporter turns the branch into a commit that touches
> > > each affected file.

[dd]

> > BTW what does cvsup (in CVS mode) do with an RCS file to which only a
> > branch tag has been added? How does it mirror such a change? Just
> > curious.
> 
> It will add the tag to the file of course.  (In CVS tags are stored inside
> each RCS file.)

So, branching a native CVS repo would still produce a massive change
and download of RCS files by cvsup?

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru



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