Re: moving repository to a new server

[Larry Jones]

Joe Goldman writes:
> 
> This is likely a newb question, as I am relatively new to cvs, but I 
> have just built a new machine to be our new cvs server and want to copy 
> over the repository. The old server (cvs 1.11.11) is running on red hat 
> 7, and the new machine (cvs 1.11.17) is running Fedora core 2. Is 
> copying the CVSROOT folder sufficient, or are the actual "changes" to 
> files stored elsewhere? I'd really appreciate any help anyone could offer.

You might try reading the manual -- the section on "Moving a repository"
would seem to be particularly appropos:

        <https://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.17/cvs_2.html#SEC25>

-Larry Jones

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