Re: Client hangs with '-z' option

[Eric Siegerman]

On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 10:19:01AM +1200, William Brower wrote:
> I was attempting to measure the effect of compression
> with "time cvs -z3 co project" but this command did
> not return - it hung after extracting all the files.
> [...]
> Client$ cvs --version
> Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11 (client/server)
> [...]
> Server$ cvs --version
> Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.2 (client/server)

It might be a version mismatch.  They're supposed to be
interoperable, but IIR, there's a subtle difference in who
expects whom to do what when, that can cause weird things like
this to happen.  Try upgrading the client.

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