HEADSUP: CVS/Mirror mode for csup to be merged soon
Alfred Perlstein
alfred at freebsd.org
Tue Nov 25 15:37:30 PST 2008
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This is very cool, thank you!
Is there a port for this latest version? That would get you a larger test
audience.
I don't really have the time to apply diff and figure out what I'm
doing. :)
* Ulf Lilleengen <lulf at freebsd.org> [081125 08:41] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> After some feedback on previous patches and some adjustments, I think the
> CVSMode for csup project have come to a place where a wider testing audience
> is needed, and I would like to make this a call for review and a HEADSUP to
> allow willing reviewers and eventual protesters to give their opinion before
> merging this to HEAD. A few things about the current state of CVSMode:
>
> - Complete CVS mode (mirror mode) is supported, allowing the whole CVS
> repository to be fetched by csup.
> - rsync fetch supported if not explicitly not wanted by user or not supported
> by server.
> - Support using the status file to speed up detailing of files. This means no
> bigger inpact on files that are up to date.
>
> For the state of the code itself, I have went over it a couple of times the
> last couple of days, fixing style issues and a few differences between cvsup
> and csup. One important thing to note is that the impact on the existing csup
> operation is _minimal_, so that the risk of introducing bugs to the normal
> csup operation is very small, and because of this I see no problems with
> committing the current version. If you find any issues, please e-mail me, and
> I will look at it.
>
> So, for those of you wanting to test, please do so now. If people are okay
> with this, I would like to merge it by the end of the week/early next week.
>
> A patch can be found here: http://people.freebsd.org/~lulf/csup_cvsmode.diff
> or you can just do a checkout of projects/csup_cvsmode
>
> --
> Ulf Lilleengen
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- Alfred Perlstein
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