Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 07:16:57 +0100 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> To: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do we really need articles/cvs-freebsd anymore? Message-ID: <20130208061656.GB30828@saturn> In-Reply-To: <20130208061343.GF81339@glenbarber.us> References: <20130208055308.GA30647@saturn> <20130208055755.GE81339@glenbarber.us> <20130208060757.GA30828@saturn> <20130208061343.GF81339@glenbarber.us>
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On 2013-02-08 01:13, Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 07:07:58AM +0100, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>> My personal preference is to ensure we have a matching svn replacement >>> before removing the cvs-freebsd/ bits, so we do not leave people >>> straggling with converting from one source control system to another, >>> or worse, newcomers that cannot find any documentation on the current >>> source control system. >> >> Fair enough. The main point of this article is to help people replicate >> the CVS setup that FreeBSD uses. I can work on describing how someone >> can replicate the subversion setup of FreeBSD, including access-control >> and email notifications, and _then_ we can de-orbit the article and the >> cvs-freebsd setup. > > Yes, this is what I meant. Sorry if that was not clear. > > I seem to recall an email from Peter a few months ago (likely to -doc@) > with a rough synopsis of what is needed to seed and run a local svn > mirror. I will need to look for the email, but he had a nice outline of > what should be included, and how to do it. I got that email already; thanks. I recently reinstalled my CURRENT test machine, and mirrored svn/base and svn/doc from scratch, so I can write that part easily. The more important bits that I will have to dig out of svnadmin/ is how to replicate the setup we use for 'admin' stuff, so that people can have a non-FreeBSD subversino repository that uses all the extra goodies we have on top of a plain-svn repo.
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