[vsgrab-dev] CVSGrab - reconstructing version history

[John V. <ja...@gm...>]

Hi,

Firstly, CVSGrab is amazing.  I started off today writing a script
around wget to export a project that is only available using
FreeBSD-CVSweb 2.0.6, and eventually gave up.  It was intoxicating to
watch CVSGrab download all the most recent versions, complete with CVS
directories.

I have a few non-frequently asked questions.

Why is the default file type binary?

I needed to add the following entries in FileTypes.properties, if only
to prevent the scary messages on my screen.
*.js=3Dtext
*.dtd=3Dtext
*.php=3Dtext
*.conf=3Dtext

Now that I have a checkout of the project, I know that I only need the
history of 4 files, and there is no branches to consider.  I'm
guessing that a for loop could fetch each version from 1.1 to 1.900+ ?
 I could then replay them against a new local cvs repository, and the
changes should be accurate, with only the timestamps different from
the official, but closed, tree.

However, I would like the history of the entire project if possible.=20
Ideally CVSGrab could save the history as ,v files files, but I'm not
fussy!  Can this be achieved with 2.2.2 plus a bit of shell scripting,
or is the in-memory object tree in CVSGrab better suited for
performing this?

If its best developed inside CVSGrab, is there any way that I can
build CVSGrab without Maven, and if possible, without Ant. I know they
are great tools, but my linux box wilts under the weight of blackdown
Java, and I would rather have an obscure once-off shell script to
build it, if at all possible.

Also, the link to JRCS on the CVSGrab homepage is broken.  Where is it
now hosted?  The only source code I can find is ironically available
via ViewCVS:
http://cvs.jrcs.codehaus.org/jrcs/src/java/org/apache/commons/jrcs/

--
John