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Re: Bootstrap fails on Win32


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: Bootstrap fails on Win32
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:20:12 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.110009 (No Gnus v0.9) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux)

"Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden> writes:

> But IIRC, when you commit changes to the CVS, -kb files are sent
> entirely, while normal non-kb text files are patched (only differences
> are sent). That makes a difference for big files like ChangeLogs.

It's the other way round: patches are received (or not) when updating.
When committing (or diffing) the whole contents are always sent, since
CVS does not have the concept of pristine sources, so it cannot compute
the changes locally.

Andreas.

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