Re: safe method of moving a complete repository

[David Taylor]

You should read this:

 http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/info-cvs/2001-May/015435.html

and Larry Jones' reply re symlink for repository root:

 http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/info-cvs/2001-May/015439.html

dtayl


Rob Helmer wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 10:14:42AM +0100, Markus Warg wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > is it safe to move a complete repository to a new location by
> >
> > * let the users commit and remove their working copies
> > * mv the root directory of cvs to its new location including all
> >   subdirectories
> > * let the users change their CVSROOT environment variable to the
> >   new path
> > * let the users checkout?
>
> Hi Markus,
>
> This is the proper procedure in my opinion. Others may have
> different information, but this has always worked for me.
>
> I usually have a subdomain for the CVS server, and provide
> the CVSROOT as a symlink ( /cvs ). That way, you can change the
> server or the mountpoint, but the CVSROOT is always cvs.domain:/cvs
>
> Not a requirement of course, just something I find useful. This
> setup allows you to avoid making sure all users have removed their
> sandboxes from machines you may not have control over, unless you
> are moving to a different domain ( which usually signifies a larger
> server move than just administration ).
>
> HTH,
> Rob Helmer
> Namodn
>
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