[PD-dev] cvs question

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

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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