Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:16:51 -0400 From: Howard Goldstein <hg@queue.to> To: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to retrieve a directory tree from perforce.freebsd.org? Message-ID: <46D84D03.4070407@queue.to> In-Reply-To: <46D846F2.5040000@otenet.gr> References: <46D81EB4.3060902@queue.to> <46D846F2.5040000@otenet.gr>
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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. > > Whatever the magical incantation for p4 is it's well hidden after 15 minutes of poking around various docs cally:~$ p4 -H perforce.freebsd.org Perforce client error: Connect to server failed; check $P4PORT. TCP connect to perforce failed. perforce: host unknown. cally:~$ p4 -p 1666 -H perforce.freebsd.org Perforce client error: Connect to server failed; check $P4PORT. TCP connect to 1666 failed. connect: 1666: Connection refused cally:~$ I'm sure I'm missing something simple. If anon access is supposed to be denied by design it's broken because the browser portion allows access to the files themselves, although laden with revision prettyfication.
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