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LiquidPC writes: "ONLamp.com has an article on FreeBSD's CVSup servers, which includes hints and guidelines on using CVSup. Also, advice from John Polstra, designer of CVSup."
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cvsup makes it tolerable to have a cvs client, which concurrently does the recentness compare with the downloads itself -- no BIG...LONG...PAUSE for a cvs update to scan everything then download the changes.
unfortunately it's still ultimately based on the highly excreble CVS, which still can't handle something as simple as a renamed file, to say nothing of the hell it puts you through for directories. If McVoy would stop playing silly license games with Bitkeeper so he can try to become the next Sourceforge (sorry, but you lost), then the world would probably beat a path to his door.
In the meantime, are there any robust and free alternatives to cvs?
I've finally had it: until slashdot gets article moderation, I am not coming back.
why not use some sort of load balancing to redistribute/redirect the load to other mirrors around US?
Because it would be killer for bandwidth. A better solution would be to put smart (ish) selection of mirrors into the client. Unforunately it's written in Modula-3, so you won't see me hacking around with it in the near future.
Dave
I write a blog now, you should be afraid.
cvsup -L 2 -g supfile
does the trick on my system.
The -g switch disables the GUI.
That would be a very bad idea. Stable is a relative term. Subscribe to the freebsd-stable mailing list for a while and you will see what I mean. Stable is more stable that current, but it is still a moving target with occasional glitches and bugs. Stick to the release versions if you want to be conservative. Even then, you need to test a new release before using it for mission critical functions.
Mea navis aericumbens anguillis abundat
CVS may have its flaws, but they are relatively minor compared to most of the competition. Sure, you can't rename/move things conveniently, which is irritating, but how often do you want to do that in reality? Not very, surely. Given the technical complications with moving a file (which might be branched, and so on) I can live with this.
We switched to CVS some time ago at work, when we needed our MLOC project source base to be accessible to people working from home or clients' sites. So far, it's proved pretty successful. We're prepared to sacrifice a couple of little things in exchange for a robust mechanism for remote file access and a decent set of tools for integrating changes from many people.
I should note that we also use WinCVS, which does make certain tasks easier. For example, you can do an atomic commit of multiple files from all over the source tree easily this way, much more easily than from the command line. Most of the awkward things about CVS are handled by using a decent GUI on top of it, in our experience.
If you disagree, post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like.
When I use Project Builder, the capability to use CVS is dimmed out. I checked in Terminal.app and cvs is installed and working correctly. (cvs -h works) How do I configure it to setup to connect to a CVS server and corresponding project so that I can commit my sources?
Thanks for all your help. Have a good morning!
Pat
I first ran into this at $VERY_LARGE_CORP where every machine was built off a standard image, which included a cron job to synchronize the clock with the master NTP server every hour, on the hour- which meant that precisely on the hour, the NTP server got slammed with hundreds of requests for the time.
I'm not sure why nobody has adopted my solution to the problem of ensuring that all the hosts do not hit the server exactly on the hour- the 'rsleep' command.
RSLEEP(1) MSG.Net General Commands Manual RSLEEP(1)
NAME
rsleep - suspend execution for a random interval of time
SYNOPSIS
rsleep seconds
DESCRIPTION
The rsleep command suspends execution for a minimum of 1 second, and as many as seconds.
Primarily useful for scheduling cron jobs to introduce some 'jitter' in the timing of requests from numerous clients all built off the same image, for example:
Credits
This incarnation of rsleep was first implemented by MSG.Net in 1994 as a 'ksh' script.
I do not deploy Linux. Ever.
I agree with you.
Although a decent C++ compiler will take about 10 man years to finish.
Plus C++ Standard library.
Plus linker, assembler and debugger.
On the other hand if one doesn't start with it, it probably won't take off ever.
Anyone mad enough and seriously interested in that task should drop me a mail.
Regards,
Marc
I don't disagree. GCC also poses another threat: it is wiping out virtually all alternatives. A monoculture is not a good thing, and so for this reason alone a BSD-licensed alternative should be developed.
The CVSup GUI was really more of a debugging tool than something that was supposed to be useful. Ask Polstra.
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