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[Statcvs-users] connecting to remote repositary using statcvs

[Satish B. G <sat...@cg...>]

Hi. This is satish from CGI BANGALORE India. I want to know how to connect
remote repository using statcvs. My requirement is like this. I need to
connect to sourceforge London using pserver protocol. Is there any way (at
least through ant scripting ) to connect to remote repositary through
statcvs. Please let me know how to connect. Waiting for your reply.

Ok.

Regards,

G.Satish.

Re: [Statcvs-users] connecting to remote repositary using statcvs

[Brian G. P. <br...@br...>]

On Monday 24 January 2005 03:48 am, Satish Babu G wrote:
> Hi. This is satish from CGI BANGALORE India. I want to know how to connect
> remote repository using statcvs. My requirement is like this. I need to
> connect to sourceforge London using pserver protocol. Is there any way (at
> least through ant scripting ) to connect to remote repositary through
> statcvs. Please let me know how to connect. Waiting for your reply.

You need a full cvs log.  Read the documentation, all the details are there.
PServer can be painfully slow to generate the full log on a large project.

For a quick overview, here are the steps that I use for a Sourceforge project 
that I am the administrator of (modified to use pserver):

#!/bin/bash

HOME=/home/brian/cvs

cd $HOME

echo "Updating XRMS CVS"

cvs -q -z3 -d :pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/xrms checkout 
xrms

echo "generating log"

cd xrms

cvs log > cvslog

cd $HOME

echo "generating statistics"

cd xrmsstats

/usr/java/bin/java -jar statcvs.jar -title "XRMS CRM" -verbose -viewcvs 
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/xrms/xrms/ ../xrms/cvslog ../xrms/

I've separated each single line of the shell script above with a blank line to 
account for inevitable email wrapping.

The approach above can be incredibly slow via PServer.  It may be faster to 
make a complete local copy of the entire repository. Sourceforge creates a 
daily backup tarball of the entire CVS repository:

wget http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/xrms-cvsroot.tar.bz2
wget http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/projectname-cvsroot.tar.bz2

I hope this helps.

Regards,

  - Brian