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SubjectRe: [ANNOUNCE] cvsps support for parsing BK->CVS kernel tree logs
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 07:19:32PM -0500, David Mansfield wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> > this is a critical feature for me, note that if Larry agreed of tagging
> > the tree with the atomic-date of the patchset extracting those patchset
> > would be an order of magnitude faster, I would pay for the RTT latency 1
> > per patchset, not once per file and it would be possible to teach cvsps
> > to learn diffing against the tag if it matches. Anyways stuff works now
> > so I'll just wait for the RTT all the time w/o being able to use the
> > real bandwidth provided by my link. As soon as the CVS tarball is
> > available I'll use it for the large patch extractions.
>
> I just looked briefly at the 'cvs server' protocol. It looks fairly easy
> to have a 'keepalive' session with a server where multiple diffs of
> multiple files are requested. This isn't a 5 minute fix though, but I've

this sounds an excellent plan if technically doable

> been bothered by the RTT per file as well, because we use 'ssh' to
> authenticate cvs access here, and each file is a complete ssh handshake
> which is very slow.

with ssh the latency would be exploded indeed, it takes quite some cpu too

> > One more feature wish (besides the python inteface for a quick gui) is
> > the C^c killing cvsps too during a -g patch extraction, you probably
> > should check the return code of cvs when extracting the patches. Right
> > now I press C^z and then I killall cvsps ;)
>
> Already fixed in my code. I won't bother you with a diff.

I'll fetch it with the next release, thanks.

Andrea
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