Re: rsync

[Stephen Borrill <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost>]

On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Paul Goyette wrote:
> Maybe I just don't get it, but rsync from the NetBSD CVS repository seems not 
> to retrieve any of the .../CVS directories.  I'm using the command
>
>         # rsync -rltv rsync://anoncvs.netbsd.org/cvsroot/src ./cvsroot
>
> and I'm getting the appropriate *,v files and all the "normal" subdirectories 
> (including the Attic)
>
>         # ls ./cvsroot/src
> 	Attic           common          etc             regress 
> usr.bin
> 	BUILDING,v      compat          external        rescue 
> usr.sbin
>         Makefile,v      contrib         games           sbin            x11
>         Makefile.inc,v  crypto          gnu             share
>         UPDATING,v      dist            include         sys
>         bin             distrib         lib             tests
>         build.sh,v      doc             libexec         tools
>
> but no CVS/ directory.  This would seem to make it impossible to use the rsyc 
> copy as a local repository.

The CVS directories are in the checked out copy from the repository, not 
the repository itself. So what you see is correct.

--
Stephen