On 2015-02-22, Raf Czlonka <rczlo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 12:43:57PM GMT, Stuart Henderson wrote:
>> On 2015-02-21, Raf Czlonka <rczlo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Alternatively, you can use CVSync[0] to get the code.
>> 
>> That is likely going to be worse on a slow/unstable link as you
>> are fetching the entire repository history (~2GB rather than ~750MB),
>> not just updating the checked-out tree.
>
> One would think that. However, CVSync + local 'cvs up' is much faster
> and more reliable than "remote" 'cvs up'.
>
> I'm using it daily so this is not speculative - I'm writing from my own
> experience. Also, I had very similar issues as the OP.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Raf
>
> P.S. I'm use CVSync with your mirror :^)
>
>

Interesting.. I stopped running local cvsync to my server at home
a while ago, as 'cvs up' from my mirror (over adsl) was faster, not
even taking the extra cvsync time into account ;)

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