What he really needs to do is just email one of the people who has shell
access to the CVS server so that way they can make a tarball of the
directory for him. That way he will have full history on the files as he
was wanting without massively attacking the server. I am not sure who
all has access, but I do know there are a few.
Jeremy
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 14:44, Gabor Hojtsy wrote:
> > You could run this for each module, but it'll tax the CVS server pretty heavily,
> > and you'll have a mess on your end (sorting).
> > It'll work, though.. (tested very quickly; may be buggy).
> >
> > #--CUT
> > EXTENSION=xml; SUFFIX="_REV-"; for f in `find . -name '*.'$EXTENSION`; do REV=`cvs
> > log $f | grep "^revision" | awk {'print $2'}`; for
> > r in $REV; do cvs update -r $r -p $f > $f$SUFFIX$r; done; done;
> > #--CUT
> >
> > Run it from the top level of each (previously checked out) module.
> >
> > Enjoy.. remember.. it's probably buggy, and you're going to upset some admins. (-:
> > Play on your own server.
>
> You will upset the admins and developers trying to work on PHP, so I
> suggest you only try to do such things on a very small set of files.
>
> Goba
>
