Re: Preferred way to get all 'recent' code

[James Sutherland]

On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, George Boutwell wrote:

>   Ok.  I thought I remembered something on WineHQ
> about d/ling some tar.gz of the source tree, then
> using CVS to 'update' that.

You're right. That is just a shortcut to save time when first downloading
the CVS tree: since FTPing a tarball is faster than a virgin CVS checkout,
it makes sense to download the latest snapshot, then just use CVS to
download the differences between that and the CVS tree.


James.