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Date:      Thu, 25 Oct 2001 16:16:10 +0300
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
To:        Rasputin <rasputin@submonkey.net>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvsupd / cvs repository
Message-ID:  <20011025161610.D6053@straylight.oblivion.bg>
In-Reply-To: <20011025115903.A11410@shikima.mine.nu>; from rasputin@submonkey.net on Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:59:03AM %2B0100
References:  <20011025115903.A11410@shikima.mine.nu>

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On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:59:03AM +0100, Rasputin wrote:
> 
> First of all, sorry for the dumb questions.
> 
> I've installed the cvsupd-mirror port, so I now have around 1.5Gb of
> CVS data in /usr/repo.
> 
> I was wondering if there was a way to access this as a CVS repository?
> 
> What I'm really after is a way to read commit messages/diffs from it - 
> primarily for RELENG_4
> (it would be nice to see what's changed in a particular file after seeing
> a commit after a cvsup, without having to access the freebsd website)
> 
> I'm unsure as to whether a mirror needs something else to work as a cvs
> server (cvsd?), and most of the docs I've found are biased towards either
> CVS-based or CVSUp-based.
> 
> So I thought I'd as you guys, since you've probably got experience in this -
> I can do without the mirror, but I'd really like a local repository 
> (and some way of keeping it fresh preferably)
> 
> Is this even possible? Cheers.

Just install the devel/cvsweb port on the same machine, point it at
the CVS repository location, and browse away :)

G'luck,
Peter

-- 
If there were no counterfactuals, this sentence would not have been paradoxical.

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