From rossini at blindglobe.net  Tue Jul 20 04:17:46 2004
From: rossini at blindglobe.net (A.J. Rossini)
Date: Tue Jul 20 04:18:31 2004
Subject: [Rd] rsync -> cvs down?
In-Reply-To: <200407192015.55691.deepayan@stat.wisc.edu> (Deepayan Sarkar's
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Deepayan Sarkar <deepayan@stat.wisc.edu> writes:

> On Monday 19 July 2004 14:03, Martin Maechler wrote:
>> Note one difference   subversion <-> CVS :
>>
>> subversion being a 21th century child it rather
>> optimizes bandwidth over the expense of disk space:
>>
>> It keeps files 'pristine' and your modification.
>> I.e. you need more than double the diskspace
>> but you can be offline to "diff" files !
>
> And similarly, when committing, only the diff's are sent over the 
> network.

Just like all modern revision control systems.  Thankfully, there are
many to choose from.

best,
-tony

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[Rd] rsync -> cvs down?
A.J. Rossini