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Re: Additional Bootstrap Method

From: Nuutti Kotivuori <naked_at_iki.fi>
Date: 2002-10-22 00:51:57 CEST

Greg Stein wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 11:10:10PM +0300, Nuutti Kotivuori wrote:
>> Chris Parker wrote:
>>> It might be worth noting that for real work, you can also
>>> bootstrap a version (albeit unversioned) of subversion by
>>> mounting the repos over webdavfs or the like, and just copy TOT
>>> svn right to your local drive.
>>
>> For the record - I didn't use anything as fancy as webdavfs. I used
>> wget -r a few months back to do the same thing :-)
>
> How does wget do that? Does it know PROPFIND? Or does it crawl the
> dir pages for links and fetch those?

It doesn't know about PROPFIND - it crawls the HTML pages you so
graciously provide :-)

I even proposed making a small utility that could be able to do
PROPFINDs and download the files properly - but realized that this
would rather be fixed for example by teaching wget to do PROPFINDs or
some other utility.

-- Naked

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