[Rd] rsync -> cvs down?

[A.J. Rossini]

Deepayan Sarkar <deepayan at stat.wisc.edu> writes:

> On Monday 19 July 2004 14:03, Martin Maechler wrote:
>> Note one difference   subversion <-> CVS :
>>
>> subversion being a 21th century child it rather
>> optimizes bandwidth over the expense of disk space:
>>
>> It keeps files 'pristine' and your modification.
>> I.e. you need more than double the diskspace
>> but you can be offline to "diff" files !
>
> And similarly, when committing, only the diff's are sent over the 
> network.

Just like all modern revision control systems.  Thankfully, there are
many to choose from.

best,
-tony

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