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I've been running the CVSNT client now for a while against a CVS-pserver
running "plain" CVS.
If I switch to using CVSNT as my server (still on Linux), will I be
able to later switch back (for whatever reason), or is the file format
used by CVSNT so different as to be incompatible with "plain" CVS ?
I have tried to find any info on this on the cvsnt.org site, but failed.
On the /CvsntAdvantages page I noticed the following points:
- Efficient storage of binary files using binary deltas.
- Even more efficient storage using compressed deltas (when space
is more important than performance).
This makes me believe that the formats are indeed incompatible.
Is that really the case ?
Or is there a "mode" where CVSNT uses a format compatible with
"plain" CVS?
I would appreciate very much if someone could give me a pointer to
authoritative info on this archive file format issue.
/Johan Holmberg