Re: To CVS experts

[Paolo Ulivi <pulivi@libero.it>]

On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 12:06:52PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> If you want to mirror the contents of a CVS repository I believe the 
> recommended approach is to mirror the repository itself rather than 
> playing around with the checked out sources. The initial setup cost of 
> doing this is high (a complete copy of the repository) but once you've 
> done that the incremental updates can be done with rsync which is 
> relatively bandwidth light. I know some projects do let you rsync their 
> repositories but I don't know about KDE.
> 
> If you can't do that then otherwise what you'll be doing is pretty 
> maintaining a vendor branch in your CVS repository.

Unfortunately many anonymous rsync servers have ceased the service due
to costant misuse here in my country :-( ,altough I dont know if there
was one for kde.

I choosed the second option, but using cvsup instead of cvs for download,
this time.

Ciao,
Paolo

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