[PD-dev] cvs question

[Reini Urban]

Hans-Christoph Steiner schrieb:
> 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.
 >
> 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.

sure they do, even within the same day normally.
but I'd really want it daily, as before.
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Reini Urban
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