Re: [PATCHES] OS/X startup scripts

"Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> 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.

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.

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  Gregory Stark
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