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

[Mel]

On Friday 31 August 2007 19:50:19 Howard Goldstein wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Dang. Like an idiot savant, perforce appears to be (channeling Yoda I
> am?)  Time for a script to workaround perforce's needlessly overcomplex
> stupidity.  Thanks for letting me know I'm beating my head against the
> wall with the out-of-box tools...binary only at that.

I assume that since sources in perforce is work-in-progress that may or not 
become official work-in-progress (-current), download complexity is a plus.

-- 
Mel