Re: How "cvs get" works

[Larry Jones]

Reinstein, Shlomo writes:
> 
> I have a small question about the internals of "cvs get": How does "cvs get"
> transfer the files from the repository to the checkout directory after
> extracting them from the RCS files? (How does it do that when the repository
> is mounted locally and how does it do it in a client/server mode?)

When running locally, CVS reads the RCS file and writes the extracted
file directly into the checkout directory.  When running client/server,
the server does a local checkout into a temporary directory and then
sends each file across the network connection to the client who writes
them into the checkout directory.

-Larry Jones

I don't want to be THIS good! -- Calvin