While we're talking about it, I have a (perhaps stupid) question about
CVS.
Let's say I've formerly set up CVSROOT at the gnome project's CVS
server, I've done cvslogin, and I get the latest gnumeric from the Gnome
cvs repository with
cvs -z3 checkout gnumeric
Later, I want to try to compile the stable branch. I get it with
cvs -z3 checkout --r GNUMERIC_0_56 -d gnumeric-stable-1.6 gnumeric
Is CVS smart enough to recognise I've already checked gnumeric out, and
only fetch the diffs between the latest repository of gnumeric and
release 0.56? Or does it just stupidly fetch the whole tree again, even
the files that haven't changed since release 0.56 which I already have?
I've tried the command and it seems to use a lot of bandwidth. At this
rate checking out multiple versions of everything could consume a lot of
bytage.
Cheers,
Jason Stokes: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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