> Hi, > > Does anybody know of a tool to download a CVS repository (i.e., all of > the *,v files with all history) using only cvs commands? It could be > useful for some cvs2svn users who can don't have a way to get a tarball > of their CVS repository to use for the cvs2svn conversion.
In my experience, there is no such tool. > Contrariwise, perhaps somebody can think of a reason why such a tool is > not possible (for example, maybe it is not possible to get every last > byte of repository information via cvs). In my opinion, the duty of a developer focuses on code change. But CM administrator focuses on code management. So this cvs2svn conversion should be done by admin. And he/she can get the access privilege to get *,v through other ways. If I'm wrong, welcome to correct me! > I found projects CVSGrab and cvsget, which allow a working copy to be > updated via ViewCVS to circumvent a firewall, but that is a different > problem. We don't just need a snapshot of the repository, but all of > the history. And hopefully firewalls are not simultaneously causing > problems! > > Thanks, > Michael _______________________________________________ info-cvs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
