Old and new CVS repositories are available via rsync

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at cs.toronto.edu
Mon Nov 22 03:04:30 EET 2004


On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Keith Packard wrote:

> To fetch the ancient bits:
>
> 	$ rsync -avz freedesktop.org::cvs/<module> .

This works for fribidi.

> The post-breakin bits are in /compromised-cvs, to fetch them:
>
> 	$ rsync -avz freedesktop.org::compromised-cvs/<module> .

This one fails:

[behdad at home new]$ rsync -avz freedesktop.org::compromised-cvs/fribidi
@ERROR: chroot failed
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [receiver]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(359)
[behdad at home new]$

> Each project needs to check their own bits and let us know that they're
> safe to move over.
>
> -keith

--behdad
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