From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Lipe To: "Joseph H. Buehler" Cc: egcs@cygnus.com Subject: Re: Direct CVS Access to egcs sources Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 02:25:00 -0000 Message-id: <19980118142514.52800@dgii.com> References: <11672.884670861@hurl.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1998-01/msg00625.html Joseph H. Buehler wrote: > I am finding that the initial cvs checkout operation is very > sloooooow. Could you put up a tar.gz of the tree that the initial I'm going to try avoiding making this into the CVS discussion list, but will try to offer the minimal amount of information to help others on this list be productive with CVS. Current CVS has the ability to compress (gzip) the bytestream that flows over the wire. For program source (which is, of course, what we're interested in here) this can be a substantial optimization in the number of bytes flowing over the wire. Remote CVS speed - especially over a WAN - can be helped substantially by including "-z9" on the CVS checkout command. Better yet, stick it in your ~/.cvsrc and never think about it again. Here's mine to get you started looking in cvs.texinfo: $ cat ~/.cvsrc diff -u -p cvs -z9 -q -- Robert Lipe http://www.dgii.com/people/robertl robertl@dgii.com