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From: Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]>
To: Gregory Stark <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: David Fetter <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Docs <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Patches <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] OS/X startup scripts
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 10:52:45 +0100
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Gregory Stark wrote:
> "Tom Lane" <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> David Fetter <[email protected]> writes:
>>> I haven't included the customary diffs.  This points me to some of the
>>> many deficiencies of CVS, namely that I would need write access in
>>> order to have it create a diff,
>> Strange, it works fine for everyone else.
> 
> If you have rsh/ssh access to a CVS repository then you do in fact need write
> access just to generate diffs. It is one of the annoyances of CVS but it
> doesn't really matter for Postgres where we use pserver anonymous access.

You need write-access to add files, even on anonymouse server. We often 
get patches with new files as separate attachments because of that.

> Personally I find CVS so terribly slow for large trees like Postgres that it's
> essential to use rsync to maintain a local CVS repository. That makes 'cvs
> diff' remarkably fast.

Yeah, I've done that for a long time. It's by far the best way to work 
with CVS, "cvs add" works, and you can do diffs, checkouts etc. offline.

-- 
   Heikki Linnakangas
   EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com

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