Re: [viewvc-users] remote cvs

Richard Radics <[email protected]> Thu, 29 Aug 2013 15:14:00 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.viewcvs.user
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First of all all, thanks for all your help.

I will create a mirror from our remote repo, and point viewvc to the local
repo.

By the way, can I browse only a local project with viewvc?
It would be also enough.



2013/8/29 Peter Funk <[email protected]>

> C. Michael Pilato wrote 29.08.2013 08:44:
> > On 08/29/2013 05:40 AM, Richard Radics wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I need a bit help, how to set up the viewvc environment to remote cvs
> > > repository.
> > > Is it possibe?
> >
> > Not at this time, no.  The closest thing to support for remote CVS that
> > ViewVC has today is via a local NFS mount of the remote repository.
> > Another option that folks have used in the past is to create a local
> > mirror of their remote CVS repository (using cvsup or rsync), and
> > pointing ViewVC to that.
>
> As Michael already pointed out ViewVC needs filesystem level
> read access to the CVS repository files.
>
> If you are using Linux and you don't like to use NFS
> then you might also want to have a look at:
>
>    http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html
>
> But be aware of:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/fuse/index.php?title=SshfsFaq#Changes_on_the_server_are_not_immediately_visible_in_the_mounted_directory
>
> Best Regards,
> Peter Funk
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