From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 25 6:20: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from straylight.ringlet.net (sentinel.office1.bg [217.75.129.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BE96537B403 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 06:18:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 11024 invoked by uid 1000); 25 Oct 2001 13:16:10 -0000 Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 16:16:10 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: Rasputin Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsupd / cvs repository Message-ID: <20011025161610.D6053@straylight.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Rasputin , hackers@freebsd.org References: <20011025115903.A11410@shikima.mine.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011025115903.A11410@shikima.mine.nu>; from rasputin@submonkey.net on Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:59:03AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message