[cvsnt] Re: Questions

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Fri Jul 30 02:25:57 BST 2004


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David Vo wrote:

> Hi
> Please bear with me- I'm new to CVS.
> 
> 1. How do I migrate repositories, coming from CVS1.11 to CVSNT, and keep 
> the existing revision history/tags/etc. for all files?

Just copy the repository.  You'll have to change the commitinfo/loginfo 
scripts of course (probably best to copy everything except CVSROOT).

> 2. I'm having problems with the :ntserver: protocol. It complains about 
> not being installed when I try to do things in WinCVS like creating a 
> repository. (I did install it and the NTServer dll is present). From the 
> command line I get a named pipe error.
> 
:ntserver: is long dead.  There's a client for backward compatibility 
but the server side is gone now.  :sspi: replaces it.

Tony




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