I noticed Larry talking about making changes to CVS and I was wondering
if somebody has been maintaining a source repository for CVS since
SourceGear bought Cyclic? Or are patches still just floating around?
I was under the impression that SourceGear had at least disabled the
anonymous access and
http://www.sourcegear.com/CVS/Dev
donald
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 05:38:12PM -0600, Derek R. Price wrote:
> I noticed Larry talking about making changes to CVS and I was wondering
> if somebody has been maintaining a source repository for CVS since
> SourceGear bought Cyclic? Or are patches still
urceGear had at least disabled the
> anonymous access and that no one had really been maintaining patches and
> such for awhile.
Your impression is mistaken -- the official CVS source repository (see
the "Developer Information" page at www.cyclic.com) is still up and
running for both a
Larry Jones wrote:
> Since the current repository is still active, you need to handle this
> very carefully to ensure that changes don't get lost in the process.
> Best would be to get the actual machine containing the repository from
> SourceGear (which is what they did when they bought
Cameron, Steve writes:
>
> [smc] As one who's paranoid about backups, I wonder what
> measures are being taken to back up the CVS repository that
> contains CVS. Even in the event of catastrophe, I'm sure somebody
> will have a recent checkout of the CVS source, but it'
Larry Jones wrote:
> Cameron, Steve writes:
> >
> > [smc] As one who's paranoid about backups, I wonder what
> > measures are being taken to back up the CVS repository that
> > contains CVS. Even in the event of catastrophe, I'm sure somebody
> > will have a recent check
Larry Jones wrote:
> Your impression is mistaken -- the official CVS source repository (see
> the "Developer Information" page at www.cyclic.com) is still up and
> running for both anonymous and non-anonymous (i.e., developer) access.
> It survived the transition from Cycl
> It seems to me that it should be possible to write something very
> similar to CVSup using only the offical CVS client/server protocol,
> which would allow anyone to backup any CVS repository they had access to
> -- anyone looking for a project?
The protocol of choice for this seems to be anony
[ On Wednesday, May 24, 2000 at 14:16:10 (-0400), Larry Jones wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: CVS Source Repository
>
> It seems to me that it should be possible to write something very
> similar to CVSup using only the offical CVS client/server protocol,
> which would allow anyone to
How do you deal with getting atomic backups? For example, what if someone were
commiting at the same time rsync or the backup is occurring?
Noel
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> It seems
[ On Thursday, May 25, 2000 at 09:20:45 (-0400), Noel L Yap wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: CVS Source Repository
>
> How do you deal with getting atomic backups? For example, what if someone were
> commiting at the same time rsync or the backup is occurring?
# echo "CVS b
Preventing login to the machine is a bit overkill for this purpose, don't you
think?
Noel
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[ On Thursday, May 25, 2000 at 13:54:07 (-0400), Noel L Yap wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: CVS Source Repository
>
> Preventing login to the machine is a bit overkill for this purpose, don't you
> think?
Actually I was thinking that if all the backups are done at that time
then they&#
kind of integrity is
important to you, but this level worked for my purposes.
Derek
"Greg A. Woods" wrote:
> [ On Thursday, May 25, 2000 at 13:54:07 (-0400), Noel L Yap wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: CVS Source Repository
> >
> > Preventing login to the machine is a bit o
I've been assuming SourceGear and OA have been making
backups and would aim
for minimum downtime in any case, but I decided to look into it.
I'll let
you know.
Got an answer. We have no idea about SourceGear, but we will
have a copy of the repository in place for several days before the chang
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