[boost] Re: Moving from CVS to Subversion?

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-03 09:23:54

Rene Rivera <grafik.list_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> "troy d. straszheim" <troy_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>> Depends on what the CVS archive's tags/branches/etc look like, this
>>> has a lot to do with it when it comes to preserving this history
>>> information in the converted archive.  I just need a tarball of
>>> CVS.
>> That's easy to get; meta-comm is posting it at
>> http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/index.html
>
> I think Troy needs an archive of the CVS repository.. 

I thought that's what they were posting, sorry.

> Not a snapshot of 
> the trunk. Otherwise he would have all the history of the files. Don't 
> remember where SF publishes those.. And if they still are publishing them...

Yeah, they do.

> Here's the link..
>
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/boost-cvsroot.tar.bz2
>
> Not sure about the integrity of it.

Last time I checked, I needed an error-correcting http link to get
it.  IOW, "wget" would fail about 4 out of 5 times.

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Dave Abrahams
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