Syncing CVS with cvsync

Contributed by jose on 2003-12-17 from the easier-mirroring dept.

cvsync is another CVS repository synchronization utility developed by MAEKAWA Masahide. It is very similar to CVSup but is not compatible with it, and written using C and the pthreads library. Although it is still at an experimental, it has reasonable portability, better performance, and IPv6 capabilities.

The AllBSD site contains a set of BSD archives: http://www.allbsd.org/cvsync/

cvsync: http://www.cvsync.org/

There is a new page on the OpenBSD site which lists cvsync mirrors and how you can use this tool to keep a mirror.

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By Ray () ray@cyth.net on 2003-12-18 15:55 http://ray.cyth.net/

Does CVSync allow for local modifications in the repository like CVSup does?
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1. By Janne Johansson () on 2003-12-22 10:28
  
  CVSync copies the repository, not the current content of it,
  so from the CVSync'ed repository, you check out a local
  copy o -current or OPENBSD_3_4 or whatever tag you like.
  That one can of course contain local modifications, since
  it is "cvs" that handles it, and not CVSync.
By Janne Johansson () on 2003-12-22 10:31

I don't really know what to expect, but checking out
all modules (www,x11,src,ports and so on) took some
43000 seconds for me yesterday, not quite "fast" in
my book. I do have a 2.5mbit connection and ran against
my closest mirror (.de, I live in .se) which responded
faster than the .usa. mirror. Didn't try the other ones.

Dont hold your breath while running it. =)
Comments
1. By vincent () on 2003-12-26 22:46
  
  based on your comments, you don't need the tool.
  
  figuring out what you're about to do before you do it is usually a good idea.
  Comments
  1. By Anonymous Coward () on 2003-12-30 13:42
    
    I wanted to know if it would be better than rsyncing
    or other keep-lots-of-files-in-sync, but whatever the
    need may be, I though I could let folks know that it
    did take 43000-ish seconds for me to collect it all.
    
    Regardless of if I need it or not.
2. By Rob () on 2003-01-05 22:14
  
  So how does this compare with a CVSup run, or a plain old cvs checkout?

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