cvs.diff

[Tom]

Andreas Mohr wrote:

>On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 05:03:58PM +0900, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
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>>"Marcus Meissner" <marcus at jet.franken.de> wrote:
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>>>>>Change  cvs -z 3 to cvs -z 0
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>>>>Huh, why do you think anyone would accept that?
>>>>A lot of people still use modem links (or even DSL might be troublesome
>>>>for that matter), so using no compression at all can be considered fatal.
>>>>For such a strange patch (at least from my point of view),
>>>>an explanation/justification is sorely missing.
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>>>Because cvs -z3 still hangs at the end of any cvs command.
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>Ah, now THAT is an explanation that gives it a lot of sense...
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Sure does :))

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>>Well, after it started to hang for me after a WineHQ crash, I changed it
>>to -z0 for once and moved it back to -z9 right after -z0 case succeeded.
>>-z9 still works fine for me under both Linux and win2k.
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>How about leaving -z3 as is and adding a notice about potential hangs
>in red letters?
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Why not put in red letters 0 works but you can try from 1 to 9 ?

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>I'm not sure whether we should easily give up on that compression gain...
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I agree people get the source a little faster but the server also has to 
works harder ?
I say change it to 0 untill 3 ( or whatever ) works for everyone. And in 
the mean time you can still
use whatever you wish.
The page is for newbies to cvs anyway...... most experienced users are 
going to go with
what's in there .cvsrc

Tom