Re: using cvs history files e, g foo.c, v to clone a hierarchy and retain the history

[Frederic Brehm]

At 12:58 PM 8/2/2004, sfgaijin wrote:
> I tried just adding the *,v files into cvs via cvs add and cvs update; but
> it did not recognize that the special nature of the files;
> i.e. I ended up having a bunch of  *,v,v files.

No, no. Just copy the *,v files directly into the new repository.

For example, suppose you want to make a copy of MODULE/FILE from 
/OldCVSROOT into /NewCVSROOT. Just

    cp -r /OldCVSROOT/MODULE/FILE,v /NewCVSROOT/MODULE

Of course, if the old and new roots are on different systems and you cannot 
just copy, then you can use any other mechanism to transport the file from 
one system to another.

If you checkout both MODULE sandboxes and run "cvs status FILE" in both, 
then the output from both will be identical except for the CVSROOT 
directory path.

Fred


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