Re: CVS Server migration Question

Hello,

* On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 12:55:11PM -0500 Todd Denniston wrote:

> There are four ways I see for handling your situation:
[...]
> 3) each developer will, in each of their sandboxes, need to run something 
> like the following:
> for i in `find . -type d -name CVS `; \
> do \
>   sed -e s/oldmachName/newmachName/ $i/Root > /tmp/tmpfile; \
>   cp /tmp/tmpfile $i/Root ; \
> done
>
>
> As 3 is done by each of the devs, and I don't know if your old or new 
> machine names might match something else in the Root files, I see 3 as 
> the highest risk method.

... or use cvschroot(1) (http://linux.die.net/man/1/cvschroot) from the
cvsutils (http://www.red-bean.com/cvsutils/), which reduces this risk
significantly.

Regards,
Spiro.

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