Re: Daily XFS CVS snapshots?

[Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 19 May 2001 23:44:46 +0800 (PHT), 
Federico Sevilla III <jijo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I heard CVSup is a more efficient way of doing things, but I followed the
>instructions in the XFS website and did a CVSup but found that it was
>downloading a LOT of files too many. Why? I investigated and found it was
>downloading every file in the tree with a ",v" appended at the end of the
>filename.

Those are the CVS history files for each source file.  If you are going
to use a CVS based system then you have to accept that download the
first time.  After that you only get the changes, either by cvs update
or CVSup.