Re: Compression vs. streaming in cvs

[Mark D. Baushke]

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Richard Pfeiffer <address@hidden> writes:

> Just got a question regarding compression vs. streaming data on cvs. 
> Since I know nothing about this, I looked it up at cvshome.org and
> google as well as in the book "Open source developement with CVS, 2nd
> edition". 
> Nothing - at least that I can find in the index or search engines.
> Can anyone shed some light on what is even being referred to by this? 
> Supposedly, the thought is that streaming would be faster.
>  
> I thought maybe there was a streaming option or a compression option to
> the command line - but now I'm not so sure.
>  
> Thank you.

I believe you are looking for the '-z gzip-level' global option.
Read:

  http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.7/cvs_16.html#SEC117

for page you were trying to find.

It is useful for :pserver: as well as :ext: (for CVS_RSH=rsh), but
not that useful when using :ext: over ssh (CVS_RSH=ssh) which already
does compression for you.

        -- Mark
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