In order to have a look at how something like Bazaar-ng (which seems to have come out on top after consideration for my significantly smaller projects) or Mercuirial (which is optimised towards larger projects, and might suit FreeRADIUS nicely) will handle the importing of current the FreeRADIUS CVS repository, I propose to run a read-only parallel repository in either or both of the above on my own server, syncing against the FreeRADIUS CVS server. I'm planning to use tailor [1] to do the initial conversion and regular pulls. I'd then offer rsync, http and *web access as appropriate (although I've never tried it for Mercurial and only just set it up for bazaar-ng) for the curious to see what sort of difference it makes. However, the initial pull will produce pain for cvs.freeradius.org I expect, so I'd like to know if there's a particular time window which would be better for the cvs.freeradius.org box to be hammered upon by me doing this. (And be sure the time window is in UTC. I'm in Australia, so I don't want a TZ mistake to cause me to bring something grinding to a halt in front of someone's CEO. ^_^) (Alternatively, I could work off a copy of the CVS repository for a given point in time, but that's more effort for the server admins, and so I consider it optional. tailor can use pserver from the look of things.) I'm also open to other suggestions of versioning software to use, although I'm really only familiar with CVS in usage, and have been reading about git and bzr recently. One of (in fact, the main) reason I'm doing this is that it makes branches cheaper, so I can branch off my own Debian packaging work, and only push it up when I make a fix that belongs in the FreeRADIUS repository as well as in the Debian archive. I'm not really satisfied with the way I handled this between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5, although dpatch improved it immensely over 1.0.3 and earlier. ^_^ [1] http://darcs.net/DarcsWiki/Tailor -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, MCSE 8th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) Paul.Hampson@Pobox.Com Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.1/au/ -----------------------------------------------------------