Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 20:34:37 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "Mark D. Anderson" <mda@discerning.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: local changes to CVS tree Message-ID: <20010910203437.A8986@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <0ab401c138e7$f0ff2b60$6501a8c0@mdaxke>; from mda@discerning.com on Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 09:28:27PM -0700 References: <0ab401c138e7$f0ff2b60$6501a8c0@mdaxke>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 09:28:27PM -0700, Mark D. Anderson wrote: > "Terry Lambert " <tlambert2@mindspring.com> wrote: > > Any chance of getting CVSup to transfer from a remote repository > > to a local vendor branch, instead of from a remote repository to > > a local repository? > > > > This would be incredibly useful for building a combined local > > source tree from multiple project's CVS repositories. It could > > be used by FreeBSD for a number of "contrib" things, as well... > > this has probably been discussed before, but has the freebsd project considered > using perforce for the central repository? Yes; see the archives. The main barrier is replication of the p4 depot to local developer machines for offline work. You can extract to cvs, but that's not really good enough. A number of committers are using perforce for out-of-main-tree development work on some of the major projects in -current (SMPng, etc). Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7nYZMWry0BWjoQKURAvGbAKC2exN8KDHOsLAY7xChjVtRxGel9gCcD+95 swe5YjlBI4+4kI518Z857lM= =zyVN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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