From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jul 19 22: 6:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE61237BAB9 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 22:06:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA10770; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 22:06:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) From: John Polstra Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id WAA15436; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 22:06:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 22:06:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200007200506.WAA15436@vashon.polstra.com> To: pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at Subject: Re: (Read-only) CVS access for non-committer maintainers? In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: ports@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In article , Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > 2. Last time I checked CVSup did not transmit the CVS repository > itself, just the files in there, so I cannot perform `cvs log` or > use cvs tags nor `cvs diff` on my local copy. > > Okay, I just noticed /usr/share/examples/cvsup/cvs-supfile which > seems to do what I want, Yes, actually even the very first version of CVSup could fetch the repository itself. It could do that before it became able to fetch the checked-out sources. > even though the comments in that file itself are not correct. Do you have some specific corrections you'd like to share with us? John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message