Re: CVS tarball

Piotr Roszatycki wrote: > On Friday 07 of October 2005 16:23, Wez Furlong wrote: > >>I honestly don't see how it will be any better than CVS, if the data >>comes from CVS in the first place. >> >>Since we've generally got our plates full, we don't have the resources >>to support third parties maintaining their own forks. We'd much >>rather have those third parties working directly with us so that forks >>are not necessary. > > > I should redirect you to SVK website (http://svk.elixus.org/) and especially > to http://svk.elixus.org/?SingleUserSVK > http://svk.elixus.org/?SyncReposBetweenServers and > http://svk.elixus.org/?SVKAsAProxyForCVSMirror > This is the better tool and designer to make the life much simpler, not more > complicated. > > I.e. with CVS you can't get the diff of one commit for more that one file, > because the revisions are per file, not per repository. You can't find which > files was modified i.e. with "Fixed bug #34358" message without cvs2cl tool. > You have to dig the CVS repository and carefully read the log messages. It is > just one operation with Subversion. > > Why don't you just provide the CVS tarball like for Sourceforge's projects? > Theirs tarballs are available as > ytå=n2…¸ÄöŽëœ > ”=http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/PROJECTNAME-cvsroot.tar.bz2 Just use cvsup: http://www.php.net/cvsup.php -Rasmus