Tar with CVS now available

Jamie Lokier egcs@tantalophile.demon.co.uk
Sat Jun 3 07:33:00 GMT 2000


Dave Gilbert wrote:
>   For those of you (like myself) who want to start using the GCC CVS but
> would prefer to download an initial tar rather than check it out of the
> CVS in one go (in my case because I'm on the wrong end of a modem and can
> automate ftp retries), you can find
> 
> ftp://ftp.treblig.org/pub/people/treblig/misc/gcc_cvs_02062000.tbz
> 
> That is a bzip'd tar file of a complete cvs checkout of gcc taken last
> night. (Just under 12MB), it includes the CVS directories.  Download that,
> untar and then you can cvs update just the changes quickly over your
> modem.

Really cool would be an rsync server that's always serving (a) the
latest snapshot and (b) the latest cvs version.

-- Jamie


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