What would be an appropriate way to merge the two CVS servers? I am just trying to simply copy the files (,v files) in one CVS server to the other CVS server. Would that cause any harm for the existing CVS files in the target CVS server?
SH- On 6/24/05, Spiro Trikaliotis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > * On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 01:13:28AM +0000 Pierre Asselin wrote: > > > Soo-Hyun Choi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am a beginner in using CVS, and have a question on to change the CVS > > > server. > > > [ ... ] > > > Would this work if I simply copy the CVS's ,v files with the directory > > > to the machine S's cvsroot directory? > > > > Yes. This also makes your existing sandboxes nonfunctional, so > > be sure to delete them after committing any pending changes. > > Check out new sandboxes from the new server after the move. > > To the OP: If your server already has a CVS server (and, thus, a CVSROOT > directory) and you want to merge both repositories into one, make sure > you do NOT move that directory over to the server, but make sure you > MERGE them in an appropriate way. If you just overwrite the old CVSROOT, > you might get trouble with the data which is already stored on the > server! > > Apart from this, it works exactly like you thought (and Pierre > confirmed). Obviously, its best if you do not try to merge two cvs > servers into one. > > Regards, > Spiro. > > -- > Spiro R. Trikaliotis http://cbm4win.sf.net/ > http://www.trikaliotis.net/ http://www.viceteam.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Info-cvs mailing list > Info-cvs@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs > _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
