Re: Can cvs support distributed development usage.

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Monday, September 17, 2001 at 22:52:29 (-0700), Mike Castle wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Can cvs support distributed development usage.
>
> One thing that I often do is keep a local copy of a working area checked
> out somewhere, and when I want to start a new sandbox, instead of do a
> checkout, I copy the working copy over to the new area, then do a cvs up.
> Occasionally I will update the initial working area.

Yes, this works quite well, especially if the relative amount of change
in the repo is small over time as compared to the overall size of the
repo, or if the connection to the repo is slow.

> I believe that a few CVS hosted projects use that method for initial
> distribution (I want to say Mozilla, and possibly wine).  You download
> a tar file and unpack it, and then you can do cvs commands directly
> from there.

netbsd too...

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