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Bug 70202

Summary: Enable Viewcvs Automatic generation of tarballs
Product: Community Reporter: Juergen Weber <juergen>
Component: CVSAssignee: Eclipse Webmaster <webmaster>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P2    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Juergen Weber CLA 2004-07-16 05:36:32 EDT 
If you sit behind a firewall the only way to access Eclipse's cvs
repository is via viewcvs (e.g.
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.ui.tutorials.rcp.part3/src/org/eclipse/ui/tutorials/rcp/part3/)

But you have to download each file individually via the browser, which is
a real pain imho.

Viewcvs has an option to download "Automatic generation of tarballs for
the HEAD or a specified tag." (http://viewcvs.sourceforge.net/#Cvsweb )

But this is not enabled on the eclipse page, I don't know if this is
caused by the cvsweb version used being not a recent version.

Sorry, I don't know where else to report this bug.
Comment 1 Jean-Michel Lemieux CLA 2004-07-27 15:12:37 EDT 
I've asked the eclipse.org web team to implement proxy support for accessing the
cvs repository. This will happen at some point, I just can't tell you when.

I'm going to keep this bug around to remind me to bug the webmaster again.
Comment 2 Michael Valenta CLA 2005-03-30 09:46:42 EST 
Moving to Community CVS.
Comment 3 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2005-07-05 16:30:01 EDT 
This has been fixed with bug 87918. Although not a true proxy, it allows users
with firewalls that pass port 80 and port 443 to access CVS.  Those users who
sit behind SOCKS and proxys are SOL.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 87918 ***