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Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 13:23:10 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Possible to grab snapshot to kick-start CVS copy?
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Evan McLean wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Was wondering if having downloaded a snapshot and untared it, is it then
> possible to use this as my cvs copy (after doing a cvs login of course).
> 
> Or am I better off just doing the cvs checkout from scratch.

Usually. The snapshots are missing the CVS subdirectories so you
cant do a simple `cvs diff' or `cvs update' on the repository.

> Just thought downloading the snapshot might be quicker and use less
> bandwidth.  I am familiar with using cvs.

Are you talking about Cygwin? Or about vim?

If it's Cygwin, take a look onto

	http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/cvs.html

Corinna

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