Re: To CVS experts
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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