Getting ViewCVS

["Hensley, Richard" <Ri...@McKesson.com>]

For those that are behind corporate firewalls, thus can not use pserver
cvs access even on ports other than 2401, I found the following bit of
documentation:

http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=14033
<http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=14033&group_id=1#ni
ghtlytarballs> &group_id=1#nightlytarballs 

The result of this is that you can get a backup of the ViewCVS
repository by using the following URL 

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/viewcvs-cvsroot.tar.gz
<http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/viewcvs-cvsroot.tar.gz>  

The contents of the tarball is a CVS repository. In my case, the file
was uncompressed by my browser as it downloaded, so I did not need to
unzip it. Therefore, I did the following steps to get the CVS HEAD copy
of viewcvs.

# extract the contents with tar to a directory called
/home/rhensle/viewcvs 
tar -xvf viewcvs-cvsroot.tar.gz 
# set a proper CVSROOT 
export CVSROOT=/home/rhensle/viewcvs 
# check out viewcvs from my local repository to a temp directory 
mkdir temp 
cd temp 
cvs co viewcvs 

Now the HEAD copy of the viewcvs is in /home/rhensle/temp/viewcvs. 

BTW, this works for any sourceforge.net project. 

Richard 

Re: Getting ViewCVS

[Michael Wood <mw...@its.uct.ac.za>]

On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 02:28:14PM -0500, Hensley, Richard wrote:
[snip]
> The result of this is that you can get a backup of the ViewCVS
> repository by using the following URL 
> 
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/viewcvs-cvsroot.tar.gz
> 
> The contents of the tarball is a CVS repository. In my case, the file
[snip]

That's a bit inefficient, of course, so you probably wouldn't want to do
that with a large/old project.

You could use that repository to test out cvs2svn, though :)

-- 
Michael Wood <mw...@its.uct.ac.za>

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