[cvsnt] Re: "query update" on binary files (-kb)

Gerhard Fiedler lists at connectionbrazil.com
Thu Feb 9 23:23:48 GMT 2006


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Tony Hoyle wrote:

> Alexander Zoernack wrote:
>> - is there a chance to adjust some paramters to handle this
>>   by checksum/CRC or something like this to speedup the process?
> 
> This wouldn't help at all.
> 
> Update is only ever slow if the client file has been modified.  In this 
> case the file has to be sent to the server, which is able to compare 
> with its reference copies and (potentially) do a 3-way merge.  No 
> checksums will help here.

Why not? If I understand the "binary" part correctly, one of its effects is
that the file does /not/ get merged by the server. So in the case of -kb
files, the only thing the server has to know is whether the file is
modified or not. Or not?

Gerhard



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