snapshot & diff files

Mathias Puetz mpuetz at alpha214.unm.edu
Wed Jul 14 18:59:07 BST 1999


On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, you wrote:
> HI,
> 	unfortunatly I don't have much time for activelly hacking the code but
> I like to take a look at it and being up to date.
> 
> The snapshot are fine but downloading every couple of days 2Mb seems a
> little...time-consuming (aka wasting).
> 
> Isn't it possible to let available not only the snapshots but also the
> patch file between shapshot versions? That could save a looot of
> bandwidth/time (even because the ftp server doesn't seems to be a very
> fast one, and the diff file (.patch.gz) should be around 10kb every
> day....).
> 
That's why you should use CVSUP which does exactly what you want.
See the KDevelop Home-page and the CVSUP link on the KDE Home page
how to set it up.

Greets,
Mathias

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