Re: [BUG/Improvement?] Large file handling.

[Eric Dumas]

Derek Robert Price wrote:
> Nobody is currently working on this problem to my knowledge, but I might
> personally like to see a patch that saved CVS/Base versions for all
> commands and not just the edit command.  Once this was enabled, the next
> step would be to enable client diffs to be sent ot the server rather
> than complete files.

Can you draft me mostly what needs to be done? I might be
able to do this.

> Both storing a version of files in CVS/Base and server-to-client diffs
> are already implemented, so it should not be an insurmountable task to
> do what I've suggested.
>
> A nice side effect of this would be that once the base revisions of
> files were stored in CVS/Base, a few other commands could be tweaked for
> disconnected (e.g. laptop) operation.  Diffs could be run against the
> base version and updates could know beyond file modification times
> whether files were actually modified.  `cvs up -C' could maybe be
> tweaked to perform the equivalent of an unedit for disconnected
> operation, or at least suggest the unedit as an alternative once it
> discovers itself to be disconnected from the CVS server.
>
> It might be nice to see something like BitKeeper's local repository
> disconnected operations eventually, but I haven't even started to really
> give thought to everything that would require.


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