Re: New CVSROOT, old sandbox.

[Eric Siegerman]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 03:21:01PM -0700, Jimmy Rimmer wrote:
> What's the easiest way to change the CVS/Root entries?  The directory
> structure is mind-bogglingly huge.

        for f in `find . -type f -print | grep 'CVS/Root$'`; do
                echo newserver:/newroot >$f
        done

That's safer than
        find . -type f -name Root -print | ...
because it checks that the parent directory is named "CVS".

Of course, if your CVS/Repository files have absolute pathnames,
those need to be munged too.  People have posted Perl scripts to
do that, or you could use something like:
        find . -type f -print | grep 'CVS/Repository$' |
                xargs perl -i.bak -p -e 's,^/oldroot/,/newroot/,'

All of the above are UNTESTED, so use with caution.

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