* INSTALL: Recommend adding ViewVC to the site-wide robots.txt file.

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http://<server_name>/viewvc/~checkout~/<module_name>
http://<server_name>/viewvc/<module_name>.tar.gz?view=tar
5) Optional: Protect your ViewVC instance from server-whacking webcrawlers.
As ViewVC is a web-based application which each page containing various
links to other pages and views, you can expect your server's performance
to suffer if a webcrawler finds your ViewVC instance and begins
traversing those links. We highly recommend that you add your ViewVC
location to a site-wide robots.txt file. Visit the Wikipedia page
for Robots.txt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots.txt) for more
information.
UPGRADING VIEWVC
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