cvsup & sourceware repositories?

[Russ Allbery]

Jim Kingdon <kingdon@redhat.com> writes:

> I don't really know cvsup well enough to know just how it compares, but
> we do have anonymous rsync of the CVS repository - see
> http://sourceware.cygnus.com/sourceware/ for details.

It's roughly equivalent.  CVSup may send less information (and hence be
more efficient) than rsync since it understands CVS repository structure,
and it produces slightly nicer diagnostic output, but for the most part
either are as good.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             < http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ >