From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 24 14:51:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA19119 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 14:51:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ki.net (root@ki.net [205.150.102.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA19082 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 14:50:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by ki.net (8.7.5/8.7.5) with SMTP id RAA00956; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 17:49:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 17:49:23 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Nate Williams cc: Julian Assange , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: anoncvs In-Reply-To: <199607241949.NAA01813@rocky.mt.sri.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 24 Jul 1996, Nate Williams wrote: > > Is it possible to set up an anonymous cvs service like openbsd is doing? > > this would be quite useful for a number of people, and encourage development. > > Since you can already get the *entire* CVS source tree, this doesn't buy > you anything. If you are a developer, then you should already have the > disk space available for the selected portions of the tree you are > working on, so you should be able to get the *actual* CVS tree. > > OpenBSD doesn't use SUP/CTM, so they use CVS instead. > I've had users ask me fo rthis for the postgres95 repository, and the argument they used was tha twith CVS, they don't have to deal with having *(their* changes overwritten, cvs will merge the new changes from the repository in with the changes they have made... Can sup do this? Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org