How to retrieve a directory tree from perforce.freebsd.org?

[Kris Kennaway]

Manolis Kiagias wrote:
> Howard Goldstein wrote:
>> As the subject says, is there a straightforward way to retrieve a
>> directory tree from perforce.freebsd.org?  Clicking individual files in
>> the web interface is really tedious.
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> It seems the required software for accessing perforce repositories is
> available in ports:
> 
> /usr/ports/devel/perforce
> 
> I haven't tried it myself though. I don't even know if
> perforce.freebsd.org allows anonymous access.  You can however read some
> details on it here:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/p4-primer/index.html
> 
> If you do try, it please send a follow up post with results.
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No, it doesn't allow anonymous access (this isn't feasible due to the 
way perforce works, i.e. maintaining all client state on the server).  I 
dont know of a way to extract a general perforce tree, although a few of 
them (like trustedbsd) are exported via cvsup on I think cvsup9.  I 
think you will have to ask whoever's branch you are looking at for a 
copy of it.

Kris