Re: [SUGGESTION] CVSync

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Joel Miller <joelwmiller(at)sbcglobal(dot)net>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [SUGGESTION] CVSync
Date: 2006-03-25 04:46:23
Message-ID: 20060325004600.G4637@ganymede.hub.org
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On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Joel Miller wrote:

> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>> Is there any reason why we don't allow rsync access to the cvs repo?
>>
> The only reason I can possibly think of is server load, comparing the
> timestamps for every file and directory in a repository for every rsync
> session could be taxing if everyone under the sun and all their cousins could
> do it.
>
> CVSync, on the other hand, can cache those timestamps into a file and send it
> to the client, offloading the comparison workload from the server to the
> client where it belongs.

I'm going to look at installing this also ... what does the client side
need?

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