Re: Suggestion re: [PATCH] Remove Bitkeeper documentation from Linux tree

Christoph Hellwig
2002-04-23T16:06:35Z

On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 08:12:39AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> If you're willing to use BK just as a transport, it's a far more efficient
> transport. Ask people who have run rsync/ftp/bk all on the same system,
> the BK way gets the same information across in less bits.

If it gets the information across. So far I haven't found any feature
in BK to allow restarting a pull or clone once it is interrupted.
For that reason I use rsync to get a large BK repo to my home machines,
which often is temporarily disconnected from the ISP.