Re: safe method of moving a complete repository

[Rob Helmer]

Hmm.. ok, forget the symlink part then :) 

Thanks for the replies.



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Rob Helmer
Namodn



On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 06:29:28PM -0800, David Taylor wrote:
> 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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