On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Warren Block <wbl...@wonkity.com> wrote: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, Robert Huff wrote: > >> >> Paul Schmehl writes: >> >>> Does csup use subversion now? Or do we need to use something >>> else to fetch source? >> >> >> As I understand it, for the average user c(vs)up and subversion >> serve the same function using different methods (both in terms of >> identifying what files need to be fetched and actually fetching >> them). At this level of discussion they are mutually exclusive. >> I have switched from csup to subversion for ports and docs. >> After modest preparation it was essentially painless. > > > The difference is that a local svn checkout has all the commit history. A > comparison recently showed 700-some megabytes more space used by the svn > checkout. > > csup updates just the files that have changed without all the overhead. svn > export can get a copy of all the current files, but it copies all of them > every time, not just the changes. >
yea i agree with you. i wonder if it would be worth the effort of sharing a svn export via rsync or httpd to make fetching delta's easier and/or more efficient from a base install? -pete -- pete wright www.nycbug.org @nomadlogicLA _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"