Re: Good utility for CVS

[Arun Sharma <arun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 06:56:35PM +0530, Binand Raj S. wrote:
> Indraneel Majumdar forced the electrons to say:
> > I'm in search of an automated CVS syncing tool (eg if I have the same CVS
> > repository at two places and want them synced every 2 hours)
> 
> That would be rsync over ssh, run every two hours from cron. You might want to
> block port 2401 at both locations while the sync is going on, if the repository
> is large.

That'd work only if both the cvs repositories are read only. If people are
checking in stuff to both CVS repositories and you have to sync them, there
is nothing short of a checkout -> tar -> transfer -> import to vendor branch.

http://www.perforce.com/ might be interesting. Free for writing open source
software.

	-Arun