Re: changing remote server for existing project

[Larry Jones]

Roger Levy writes:
> 
> I have a project checked out of a remote server with a shared file
> system

Having a repository on a shared file system is a recipe for disaster. 
Unless you have a hetergeneous environment where the file server and all
the clients are running identical software of the file server is a
dedicated file server appliance that's been well tested, I strongly
suggest you rethink the location of your repository.

> There are other machines with the same
> filesystem mounted via which I would like to update and commit
> existing changes.  How is this possible?  If i just change the Root
> file in the CVS directory for every directory in the project from
> 
>   :ssh:<my_login>@<old_server_name>:<cvs_root_dir>
> 
> to
> 
>   :ssh:<my_login>@<new_server_name>:<cvs_root_dir>
> 
> will everything just work?

It should.  There's even a script in contrib/newcvsroot that does that.

-Larry Jones

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