Re: Modernizing the access to gcc sources ?

[Geoff Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>]

Marc Espie <espie@schutzenberger.liafa.jussieu.fr> writes:

> I'm currently about to slurp a large amount of gcc.gnu.org bandwidth.
> Namely, I have need of
> - the gcc 3.0 branch,
> - the gcc 2.95 branch,
> - the gcc current branch.
> 
> Plus, gcc.gnu.org is very often a bit slow in answering diff/log requests,
> even though that kind of stuff is very useful.
> 
> In the BSD world, where cvs is very widely used, we do have a few very
> convenient services for these kind of queries.
> 
> Namely, all three BSDs allow one to slurp the whole cvs repository, through
> at least sup mirrors, and very often cvsup mirrors.

If you want the whole repository, gcc.gnu.org supports anonymous rsync.

However, the whole repository is much larger than checking out the
tree three times, particularly since you could check out the head of
the tree and then copy it and efficiently use 'cvs update' to get the
two branches.

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>