From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 31 17:14:49 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8653116A468 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:14:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from weak.local (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF1C313C4B6; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:14:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <46D84C86.8010207@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:14:46 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Macintosh/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Manolis Kiagias References: <46D81EB4.3060902@queue.to> <46D846F2.5040000@otenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <46D846F2.5040000@otenet.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Howard Goldstein , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to retrieve a directory tree from perforce.freebsd.org? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:14:49 -0000 Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Howard Goldstein wrote: >> As the subject says, is there a straightforward way to retrieve a >> directory tree from perforce.freebsd.org? Clicking individual files in >> the web interface is really tedious. >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> >> > It seems the required software for accessing perforce repositories is > available in ports: > > /usr/ports/devel/perforce > > I haven't tried it myself though. I don't even know if > perforce.freebsd.org allows anonymous access. You can however read some > details on it here: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/p4-primer/index.html > > If you do try, it please send a follow up post with results. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > No, it doesn't allow anonymous access (this isn't feasible due to the way perforce works, i.e. maintaining all client state on the server). I dont know of a way to extract a general perforce tree, although a few of them (like trustedbsd) are exported via cvsup on I think cvsup9. I think you will have to ask whoever's branch you are looking at for a copy of it. Kris