Re: CVS inconsistency?

[Tomas Ogren <stric ing umu se>]

On 09 February, 1999 - Nagy Balazs sent me these 1.0K bytes:

> Hiyas,
> 
> Because I messed up my gnome-core CVS snapshot, I have downloaded the
> latest one just now. But I noticed an error and stopped the download and
> restarted again. *It downloaded all the files again*!  But worse, I just
> tested out this "feature" and I dloaded that whole package two times and
> they're differ!  Here's an example from the diff file:
> 
[snip diff]
> 
> Hey, I think a CVS mirror or two doesn't work very well.

The mirrors all update within one hour, but not all at the same time
(wouldn't be very nice to the main server)... So updates will take up to
one hour to get out to all servers.

/Tomas - running 2 anoncvs servers
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