Re: [HACKERS] Current sources?

On Sat, 23 May 1998, Tom Lane wrote:

> >     Odd...it was doing a 'second checkout' that screwed me, where i
> > didn't think it worked...try doing 'cvs -d <> checkout -P pgsql' and tell
> > me what that does...
>
> I'd expect that to choke, because you've specified a nonexistent
> repository...

    <> == :pserver:anoncvs@postgresql.org:/usr/local/cvsroot *grin*

> Why would you need to do a second checkout anyway?  Once you've got
> a local copy of the CVS tree, cd'ing into it and saying "cvs update"
> is the right way to pull an update.

    My understanding (and the way I've always done it) is that:

    cvs checkout -P pgsql

    Will remove any old files, update any existing, and bring in any
new...always worked for me...


> PS: for cvs operations across slow links, the Mozilla guys recommend
> -z3 (eg, "cvs -z3 update") to apply gzip compression to the data being
> transferred.  I haven't tried this yet but it seems like a smart idea,
> especially for a checkout.

    Geez, sounds like someone with enough knowledge to build a
'AnonCVS Instructions' web page? :)

Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org