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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: CTM, CVSup or sup?  Which is best?
Date: 9 Mar 1997 23:56:24 GMT
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Peter Mutsaers <plm@lucent.com> wrote:

> Another drawback: If you modify (accidentally) one file then the next
> CTM update to touch that file will fail. From then you have to reget
> all of the CTM source (about 50MB?) to get in sync again.

Not really.  CTM has got quite a number of options lately.  Among them
is the option to ignore a particular file from updates.  Thus, you can
proceed with the CTM deltas as usual, and finally fetch the failing
file by FTP (for example).

But you're right, CVSup can handle this much more gracefully, but
again, that's only possible since it's working online.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)