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On 2/8/05 20:58, in article dcoj9t$4nd$1 at paris.nodomain.org, "Tony Hoyle" <tony.hoyle at march-hare.com> wrote: > Steve wrote: >> At the moment, all I'm looking for is advice on how to transfer our >> repository from CVS to CVSNT, pitfalls to consider, etc. > > The repository is compatible in that you can just use your cvs > repository with cvsnt and it (should) all work OK. > >> (Am I right in thinking this is a one way trip - once we're up and running >> with CVSNT, there's no going back to plain CVS?) > > It's probably still technically possible, but quite difficult I'd imagine. > > Try it first on a backup of your main repository and see how you get on.. Absolutely! :-) > > Renaming is pretty quirky (still marked as experimental) although it > does work provided you don't try to move files around with it - I find I > have to update a couple of times before the client works out what's > going on... the cvsnt repository itself has many renamed files on it (.c > to .cpp mostly). Actually, we're more likely to be moving files between directories rather than just renaming them in the same directory - we're looking to restructure a few directories but not break older projects that rely on the old structure. > > 2.6.x will fix that (and allow directory rename) but it'll be a major > upgrade & won't be stable for a while yet. Directory rename - does that include move? Is a future roadmap for CVSNT available anywhere? Thanks Tony. -- Regards, Steve "What if the Hokey Cokey really IS what it's all about?"