Re: cvs update quite strange

> > So I finally decided to wait till the update ends. The update > > took 13 megabytes of data sent to the CVS server. I don't know > > what was in that 13 megabytes, but the received data was only > > about 1 megabytes... > > the CVS pserver protocol isn't as clever regarding the detection of > changes while minimizing transfered data like rsync is > > as soon as the client side detects possible changes it transfers > the complete local file to the server which does a local diff then > > and guess how it detects local changes? by comparing the files > modification time to whatever is recoded in the CVS/Entries files > > now guess what made it think all your files were locally changed > over the weekend :( OK, a full update of phpdoc, php4, phpweb, php-bugs-web and php-master-web took approx 25MB of transfer to the CVS server, and only approx 5MB back to me... But all is updated, and now update works smoothly... Goba