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From: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
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Subject: Re: "Master" site for source/CVS
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 08:38:31 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit@home.com>
To: "Cygwin List" <cygwin@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 8:24 AM
Subject: Re: "Master" site for source/CVS


> [Replying to LIST only:]
>
<snip>
> I'm particularly interested in CVS because my disk is filling up and I can ill
> afford to
> park every interesting source on it just in case.  Much easier would be simply
> to
> point at it somewhere else [and let somebody else worry about storing and
> maintaining it.]
>
<snip>

CVS is not a solution for you then :-[. CVS require you to download the source to your disk, just as a tarball does. It takes ~ the
same time as a tarball, and uses a little more disk space for the extracted source.

Perhaps a cheap ($150US) 18Gb hard disk?

Rob


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