Author: branden Date: 2005-03-08 23:37:58 -0500 (Tue, 08 Mar 2005) New Revision: 2208
Modified: README Log: Bring README document up to date with recent developments: * Retitle to refer to more than one repository. * Add URLs to xorg-x11, xresprobe, and xsftoolbox repositories. * Update list of examples of paths it is acceptable to check out or export, adding one recent example and removing several redundant ones. * Clarify that "commands" are Subversion client commands. * Clarify that requesting log information from any repository path is acceptable. * Declare ViewCVS access discontinued, and remove reference to it. * Clarify that snapshots are only taken of the XFree86 repository. Modified: README =================================================================== --- README 2005-03-08 20:39:21 UTC (rev 2207) +++ README 2005-03-09 04:37:58 UTC (rev 2208) @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ - README for Debian X Strike Force Subversion repository - ====================================================== + README for Debian X Strike Force Subversion repositories + ======================================================== Browsing the repository via the Subversion protocol --------------------------------------------------- @@ -14,7 +14,10 @@ svn://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xcursor/trunk svn://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xfree86/trunk svn://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xft/trunk + svn://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xorg-x11/trunk svn://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xrender/trunk + svn://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xresprobe/trunk + svn://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsftoolbox/trunk CHECKOUT OR EXPORTS MUST BE CONFINED TO DIRECTORIES THAT ARE IMMEDIATE PARENTS OF A "debian/" DIRECTORY, OR THEMSELVES HAVE "debian/" IN THEIR PATH @@ -30,20 +33,13 @@ svn://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xfree86/branches/4.3.0/sid svn://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xfree86/branches/4.3.0/woody svn://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xfree86/tags/4.1.0-16 - svn://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xfree86/tags/4.1.0-16woody1 + svn://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xfree86/tags/4.1.0-16woody5 svn://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xfree86/tags/4.2.1-7 - svn://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xfree86/tags/4.2.1-8 - svn://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xfree86/tags/4.2.1-9 - svn://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xfree86/tags/4.2.1-10 - svn://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xfree86/tags/4.2.1-11 - svn://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xfree86/tags/4.2.1-12 - svn://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xfree86/tags/4.2.1-13 - svn://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xfree86/tags/4.2.1-14 svn://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xfree86/people/branden/lintian-overrides - svn://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xfree86/people/branden/xlibs-and-xbase-clients-split svn://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xfree86/trunk -Use of the "list" or "cat" commands is acceptable on any path specification. +Use of the Subversion client's "list", "log", or "cat" commands is acceptable on +any path specification. Write access is restricted to people with SSH access to the host. @@ -59,48 +55,16 @@ Browsing the repository via the World Wide Web (ViewCVS) -------------------------------------------------------- -Unfortunately, direct web browser access to the Subversion repository is only -available with Apache 2.x, which I am not running on the repository host. +ViewCVS access to the repositories has been discontinued because it wasn't +working very well. -ViewCVS is sometimes broken entirely; and its support for Subversion -repositories is still alpha quality. If it doesn't work, please use one of the -alternative resources enumerated above. -To access the repository via ViewCVS, point your web browser at the following -URL: - http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ - -When attempting to use ViewCVS, even when it appears to be working, you may -encounter some problems. - -The biggest one is that ViewCVS doesn't know how to traverse backwards across -copy or rename operations. For instance, if you're trying to view the following -URL: - http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/tags/4.2.1-7/debian/changelog?rev=99&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup - -You'll get an error like this: - - /cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/tags/4.2.1-7/debian/changelog: unknown location - -(Plus further error messages.) - -This is because revision 99 of the "changelog" file was committed before the -Subversion copy operation that placed the debian directory into the tags/4.2.1-7 -location. Eventually, it is expected that ViewCVS will support history -traversal across copy and rename operations, so please be patient, and do not -report errors of this exact sort to me, the ViewCVS Debian package maintainer, -or to the ViewCVS upstream author(s). All of us are well aware of the issue. - -You may also occasionally experience failures due to permission problems. This -is due to the perversity of the Berkeley DB software, and is corrected by the -repository administrator as soon as possible. - - Browsing the repository via the World Wide Web (snapshots) ---------------------------------------------------------- -If Subversion and ViewCVS do not meet your needs, you may be interested in the -daily snapshots that are taken of the repository and selected development trees. +If browsing the repositories via a Subversion client does not meet your needs, +you may be interested in the daily snapshots that are taken of the XFree86 +repository's trunk and selected development branches. These resources are available at the following URL: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
