Re: CVS repository rsync

On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 19:52 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> I've set up my laptop to sync down the full cvs repository using rsync
> (remember - windows = no cvsup).

Yeah, I do this as well, and for similar reasons (cvsup is unmaintained
and annoying to build, at least on AMD64/Debian).

> This works well, except every now and
> then (not every time, but definitly often enough to bother me) it
> resyncs the entire repository, and not just the files that have had
> commits to them.

I haven't noticed this personally, although I might have just missed it.
Are you sure you're not just noticing the times when a new release has
been tagged? (Tagging in CVS requires touching all tagged files.)

-Neil