Re: How to move a repository from linux to windows?

[Todd Denniston]

Kelly F. Hickel wrote:
> For various reasons I want to make a windows copy of a repository that's
> hosted on linux.  I've tried various ways to move the data and each time
> I end up with the same result. When using a downloaded windows binary of
> 1.12.13, if I do a cvs co it goes through all the motions, creates all
> the directories and so forth, but none of the files are there.....
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> Any ideas?  I've seen various goggle results say that the repository
> files always have unix style line endings regardless of the host
> platform, and I've even tried going through every file and converting it
> to dos style line endings with the same results.  So, I must be missing
> something, I'm just not sure what.....

IIRC the windows CVS binaries don't have server capability built into them.
So the first question to get answered, from someone besides me, is can they be 
used in local (direct access to the on disk repository), :local: or :fork: 
mode at all?

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Todd Denniston
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