On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 09:37:19AM +0000, Ben Laurie wrote:
> Geoff Thorpe wrote:
>> On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, tc lewis wrote:

>>> you know, these commit mails are really nice.  seriously.  any chance
>>> someone could forward over the openssl cvs repository's loginfo file
>>> (and/or whatever else may be involved)?

>> Why not just rsync the CVS repository? Something like;
>> 
>> rsync -r -z rsync://www.openssl.org/openssl-cvs/openssl <local-cvs-rep>
>> 
>> will reproduce the openssl CVS module to your local CVS repository - at which
>> point you can do any CVS trickery you like with it (Apache + cvsweb being a
>> common use). To get the entire CVS repository, including the openssl module,
>> openssl-play module, and the web-site, strip the "openssl" off the end and
>> you'll get all you could possibly want and more.
>> 
>> BTW: This is a *large* data transfer (around 80Mb at last count) - but after
>> it's done the first time, updates tend to be quite minimal.

> I presume he was after the trickery that does the CVS mails, not the
> repository.

Well, the trickery that does the CVS mails is *in* the repository,
so the only thing to change is to substitute "CVSROOT" for "openssl"
as module name.  The transfer will still be huge unless

     --exclude='CVSROOT/commitlogs/*'

is added to the rsync options.


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