FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: Organizational question

[Waldemar Kornewald <Waldemar.Kornewald@xxxxxx>]

Matthijs Hollemans wrote:
> Oh, I have another possible Perforce con. I once heard that Perforce does
> not compress the data. Is this true? If so, is that only on the server or
> also when it transmits the data over the network?
>
> Compressed our CVS repository is about 35 MB, uncompressed it is 175 MB. I
> would hope that Perforce doesn't force you into downloading 175 MB when you
> do a checkout.
>
> Does anyone know if this is really true or am I seeing ghosts?

The default setting is to not use compression for communication, but you 
can enable it with the "p4 client" command. At least this is what I read 
in the manual.

Bye,
Waldemar