Ed, I don't think you are going to get too far using cvs for offline access to a repository. If you are running an open source project why don't you just move it to a hosting site like sourceforge.net? Sourceforge provides an Internet-accessible cvs repository for all of your developers free of charge. It also provides free bug tracking and mailing lists and makes your project more widely accessible. All you have to do is submit a request to them and in a day or so you will have a powerful resource for your project.
-Mark -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Sutter Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 8:21 AM To: cvs Subject: cvs without a server Hi, I posted a question the other day and didn't get a response. I'm hoping that the lack of response was not due to the lack of an answer, so I'll rephrase the question... I manage/maintain a small open source project. Internally I was using SourceSafe and I distributed the project to folks as a tarball consisting of the latest version of all the source files. This made it difficult for users to keep track of changes. To improve this process, I recently moved over to CVS for my internal change-control. Unfortunately I can't provide access to the repository using a CVS server; but I'm still hoping that there is a way for CVS to allow users of the project to keep track of changes between their current tree and a newer tree. I know I can simply provide a tarball of the entire repository, but then how does a user figure out what changes have been made since the last time they downloaded the repository? Is there any common/recommended way to do this? Thanks Ed _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
