[C++-sig] Re: Anonymous CVS mirror

David Abrahams dave at boost-consulting.com
Thu Aug 7 13:49:38 CEST 2003


"Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve" <rwgk at yahoo.com> writes:

> --- David Abrahams <dave at boost-consulting.com> wrote:
>> Yes, but I don't know what time the cvs tarball at SF gets updated.
>> If you can find out when that is, I'll set the cron job to update the
>> repository afterwards.
>
> It wouldn't be hard to set up a script that automatically cvs update's every
> hour using a regular Sourceforge user ID and password. Recently this works very
> reliably. The next step would be to strip out the "CVS" directories and pack
> everything into a .tar.gz file to be posted on the web. Does this sound
> interesting?

Oh, sure.  You don't even need to strip out CVS directories; just use
"cvs export".

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com





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