[PD-dev] cvs question
Hans-Christoph Steiner
hans at eds.org
Sun Oct 31 22:44:58 CET 2004
On Oct 31, 2004, at 10:24 AM, Reini Urban wrote:
> Tim Blechmann schrieb:
>>> You can always test things on a local CVS server too. You can just
>> that's probably a good idea ...
>>> copy the CVS files to your machine, and set your CVSROOT to point to
>>> them, then try anything. SourceForge used to provide a way to
>>> directly download the CVS files, but I haven't tried recently.
>> that seems to be a useful feature (although i won't download the files
>> with my poor dialup connection)
>> anyway ... do you know if there is any cool cvs feature that allows
>> one
>> to mirror (and sync) a local cvs server with the sf cvs?
>
> 20 */4 * * * cd /home/pd-dev; cvs up
>
> cool enough? (forgot if every 4 or 5th hr exactly)
> that's for anonymous cvs. ext cvs via ssh has immediate updates.
>
> send upstream also? cvs import is a bit intrusive.
>
> there's no rsync/shell access at all to the cvs boxes, and the nightly
> snapshot feature was turned off a few months ago when some folks began
> to add broken crontab entries which brought the shell boxes down.
> don't think that they'll turn it on again with the new webboxes, which
> will come this month.
> --
> Reini Urban
> http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/
I'll bet that if you file a support request, you could get them to give
you a tarball of the CVSROOT. The SourceForge support has actually
been quite responsive in the past.
.hc
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