Subject: Re: anoncvs server available
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
List: current-users
Date: 01/06/2005 22:50:57
At 19:05 Uhr -0800 5.1.2005, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>
>> Can you easily change which cvs server you check out from, without doing a
>> complete new checkout?
>
>Use the cvs -d option, like:
>
>  cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.fr.NetBSD.org:/pub/NetBSD-CVS login #
>password is anoncvs
>
>Use the -d with each use of cvs.

Nice try. Unfortunately, at least with the French mirror, vcs gives me a
load of protocol errors ("missing directory")  because of differing paths:
/cvsroot/pkgsrc' vs. /pub/NetBSD-CVS'. No update.

It would definitely nice if an easy switch between repositories were
supported...

	hauke

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