[cvsnt] Re: Question about how CVS works...

[Tony Hoyle]

Oliver Giesen wrote:

> done on the client side, i.e. I don't think the client is first sending 
> the local files to the server in order to let it merge them and then 
> send the results back...

Actually it does...

If you update, and you've modified a file, that file gets sent to the server, 
which does a 3-way merge on it and sends a patch (plus checksum) to the client.

The client is *really* dumb... that's partly why it's so easy to add features 
on the server side :)

Tony

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