Hi Arthur, Thanks for your answer!
I'm thinking about writing the tool I need myself, but I don't know when I'll find the time... Olivier On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Arthur Barrett <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Olivier, > > There are many of these - mostly written by commercial SCCM vendors like > ClearCase to help 'migrate' from CVS to another tool. We wrote one for > CM Suite (CVSNT 3.x) that can 'download' a Subversion or CVS repository > purely client-side, and import it into a CM Suite repository. > > I am not aware of a tool that does this purely for the purpose of > 'archive'. > > We've often thought of adding a feature like this to CVSNT (open source, > runs on linux, windows etc) but we've avoided it because generally if a > CVS Server administrator WANTS you to have access to the whole > repository then they'll give you access to the RCS files themselves. > Ie: if you are asking for a pure 'client side' solution then the chances > are that you are doing something the CVS administrator doesn't want you > to do... > > Due to the popularity of things like Git (with the 'git clone' command) > we are re-considering this 'ban' on a 'cvs clone' command. I wonder if > the 'lack' of a 'cvs clone' command can be perceived as a weakness in > the CVS model? However we are likely to implement it in such a way that > would either require the CVS Administrator to 'enable' the feature, or > (at a minimum) allow the CVS Administrator to 'disable' the feature. > > If this is something you need urgently then I recommend talking to our > sales team about getting the feature added sooner rather than later - or > of course you can write it yourself (which is the beauty of open source > software right?). > http://cvsnt.org/ > > Regards, > > > Arthur Barrett > Product Manager > March Hare Software > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: >> [email protected] >> [mailto:info-cvs-bounces+arthur.barrett=march-hare....@nongnu. >> org] On Behalf Of Olivier Bruchez >> Sent: Friday, 24 December 2010 11:58 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: CVS archiver (way to automatically archive all revisions?) >> >> >> Hello, >> >> Is there a way (a tool or script) to automatically download all the >> revisions of all the files (including files that were deleted) in a >> given repository, from the client-side? >> >> Thanks for any help or pointer. >> >> Olivier
