Joel Miller wrote: > Hello, > > I've been trying to get a local mirror of the cvs repository, but my > connection attempts using rsync to cvsup.postgresql.org are always > refused when I try to actually retrieve the pgsql-cvs collection. I > tried to use rsync because cvsup is simply not an option for me. > > I'd like to suggest that CVSync (www.cvsync.org) be added as a means > for the public to obtain a local mirror of the cvs repository. It > builds on most every platform (it's written in C, no modula-3 > required) and has the advantage of caching directory scan info to > reduce server load -- The cached scan info is sent to the client, > which compares it to its own cached scan info to decide what to > download (You can set up a cron job to periodically scan the > repository directories, or even set up a sophisticated system that > would only scan after commits are made.). It also sends only the new > diffs (optionally compressed) from the ",v" files that are needed to > bring the clients' repository mirror up to date. > As a complete out of nowhere suggestion, you might also look at csup in FreeBSD's CVS (or the project page), which is a cvsup clone in C.
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