Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 10:29:16 +0200 From: hans@lambermont.dyndns.org (Hans Lambermont) To: Allan Fields <bsd@afields.ca> Cc: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Subject: Re: anoncvs.FreeBSD.org gone? Message-ID: <20040526082916.GB22828@moya.lambermont.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20040525222645.GA34929@afields.ca> References: <40B2FEAF.7050701@alumni.rice.edu> <6.1.0.6.1.20040525091306.0370d840@popserver.sfu.ca> <20040525222645.GA34929@afields.ca>
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Allan Fields wrote: > On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 09:17:51AM +0100, Colin Percival wrote: ... >> This may be a silly question, but why do you need anoncvs? ... > anoncvs access might still > be useful for those who don't want to maintain a local mirror but > still desire to use cvs to access the sources (for example: occasional > use, to get specific version of single binary sources, remote use > via slow dial-up [me a few years back], just to look at logs, etc.) Exactly. I prefer shell based cvs commands to occasionally check source changes and commit logs when I up my -current laptop. Keeping a complete repository around is not an option; my laptop's disk is too small, and I upgrade on different places, so I don't always have a fat disk around on another system. -- Hans
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