[M3devel] m3 CVS?

[Jay]

Also, presumably you can copy the entire CVS repository with little CPU use and then do the monotone work locally. I doubt it is all that large, can tell you later.. (ssh in and du /usr/cvs)

 

 - Jay

 
> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:19:08 +0200
> From: wagner at elegosoft.com
> To: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> CC: manderson at elego.de
> Subject: Re: [M3devel] m3 CVS?
> 
> Quoting hendrik at topoi.pooq.com:
> 
> > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 01:39:10PM +0200, Olaf Wagner wrote:
> >> Quoting hendrik at topoi.pooq.com:
> >>
> >> >Is CVS back up yet? Completely? I've been delaying trying the
> >> >monotone conversion because it would be nice to have only one set
> >> >of problems to look into.
> >>
> >> CVS is up and no history should be lost, but tinderbox is still not
> >> working and several archives are missing. Michael is working on it
> >> (but he's got some other tasks, too).
> >
> > So the current source is available, but not the tools to investigate
> > their status on-line. And the other archives? What are they? Are they
> > more source code? Should they be subject to revision control too? Are
> > they ancient prehistory that should be grafted into the revision tree
> > except that it may not be technically feasible?
> 
> Mostly all the old installation archives and snapshots are still missing.
> I'm not sure what's the status of the re-installation of tinderbox.
> 
> > Ah. I have too many questions.
> >
> > By the way, rumours are that monotone's cvs pull command is quite
> > demanding on the cvs server, but that sync operation isn't bad at all
> > after that. Getting really old versions of files requires CVS to chain
> > back through a lot of reverse differences. And I don't know if it
> > caches any of that in case it is asked to cough up another really old
> > version.
> >
> > If there are any scheduling considerations I'd like to hear them. I
> > don't know if I'll flatten your system, but if I do there are probably
> > better and worse times to do it. (I may saturate ny DSL link first, but
> > you never know until you try it.)
> >
> > By the way, what's the total size of Modula 3's CVS archive?
> 
> I've got no access from here (can only check later tonight); please
> ask Michael Anderson directly for administrative topics.
> 
> Olaf
> 
> PS: I don't think you can bring the server down a one external CVS
> client; the syncing will just take a long time. Unless lots of parallel
> requests are started...
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