Re: [Savannah-hackers] Download tarball

[Godefroid Chapelle]

At 17:45 17/05/2002, Jaime E . Villate wrote:
> We had that option available in Savannah about a month ago, but some users
> would try to get a tarball of the whole CVS repository (2.7 GigaBytes) making
> the server become too slow.

I see and understand...

> That's why I decided to disable that feature until
> I have some time to make it optional for projects directories only (that will
> imply patching viewcvs). The problem is that I do not have much free time
> lately so I can't tell when I'll be able to look into it. If you or anyone
> you know can suggest a solution, we're all ears.
>
> Regards,
> Jaime

I just took a look into viewCVS 0.9.2.
It should be relatively easy to patch it so that it outputs the "download 
tarball" hyperlink and generates tgz for a specific class of directory only 
(based on a regular expression for instance).

Can you tell me how projects are organized on subversion.gnu.org so that I 
can make a patch proposal ?


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