Getting The CVS Repository

[John W. Eaton]

On 24-Mar-2006, Joel Miller wrote:

| I've read the thread from late last year about getting the cvs repository
| via rsync (<http://www.octave.org/octave-lists/archive/octave-
| maintainers.2005/msg00859.html>) and tried the command-line specified
| there, but I keep getting asked for a password. Is there something I'm
| doing wrong? Or do I just need to request access to download via rsync?

Some time ago, there was a hardware failure on the system that
provided the rsync service.  When the machine was replaced, I forgot to
configure rsync again.  I've fixed that now, so you should be able to
get a complete copy of the public CVS archive files now.  The command
in the message you cite is not quite right.  I think it should be

 rsync -av www.octave.org::octave-cvs/ ./octave-cvs/

jwe