[cvsnt] Re: gzip requests

[teknokrat]

Tony Hoyle wrote:
> teknokrat wrote:
> 
>> Does cvs support gzip compression? The reason i ask is that I get the 
>> following error message when Maven tries to generate a changelog
>>
>> Server is not supporting gzip-file-contents request
>>
>> Does anyone know if this is a maven issue, or cvsnt issue?
>>
> gzip-file-contents was an ancient (CVS 1.8?  Probably earlier.) way of 
> compressing the stream.  It hasn't had any purpose as long as I can 
> remember...  Apparently cvshome server still supports it but it's 
> bitrotted even on that (it crashes the server according to a couple of 
> bug reports).
> 
> You need a client that was written somewhat later than 1996 :)
> 
> Tony

thanks for that. I've no idea what maven is doing but i guess I need to 
ask on their mailing list.