Re: Moving CVS repository

[david]

> I have made a mistake in accessing the host: I used
> 
> :pserver:address@hidden:/home/cvs/repository
> 
> and wanted to use
> 
> :pserver:address@hidden:/home/cvs/repository
> 
> Is it dangerous to do this? I do not have other files called Root.
> I do not want to redownload everything from remote (the problem is: I
> used this tree locally and burned it to a CDR).
> 
> find -type f -name 'Root' \
>   -exec perl -pi -e 's/localhost/some.hostname/g' {} \;

The last time I had to do a similar thing I had people create a file
called CVSRoot in their home directories and run

find -type -f -name 'Root' \
  -exec cp /home/whoever/CVSRoot {} \;

Perl just looks like overkill here.

I had no problems.

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