Re: Download cvs repository to my machine

Adrian Chadd wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 20, 2001, Venkatesh wrote:
> > Hello folks,
> >
> > Sorry for asking silly question in this list. Bu i do not have other way. I am seeing many squid projects in squid.sourceforge.net. I want to download the whole project in to my machine. The provisoin only given was browse i think. Please guige me to do that.
> >
>
> You can checkout multiple trees if you like.
> I'm _sure_ there's a way to get the actual raw ,v files as part of
> a backup. Henrik, you've got some more sf experience (read: I'm
> lazy and its late here :-) so do you know the answer to this?

Yes, there is a way to download nightly tarballs of the CVS repository. See the SourceForge documentation.

However, save for backup / offline browsing purposes it is of limited use. I'd strongly recommend using the patches downloadable from the projects page if you want to analyze a branch.

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Henrik