On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 09:28:27PM -0700, Mark D. Anderson wrote:
> "Terry Lambert " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Any chance of getting CVSup to transfer from a remote repository
> > to a local vendor branch, instead of from a remote repository to
> > a local repository?
> >
> > This would be incredibly useful for building a combined local
> > source tree from multiple project's CVS repositories. It could
> > be used by FreeBSD for a number of "contrib" things, as well...
>
> this has probably been discussed before, but has the freebsd project considered
> using perforce for the central repository?
Yes; see the archives.
The main barrier is replication of the p4 depot to local developer
machines for offline work. You can extract to cvs, but that's not
really good enough.
A number of committers are using perforce for out-of-main-tree
development work on some of the major projects in -current (SMPng,
etc).
Kris
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