Re: migration of CVS repositery from one machine to another

[Todd Denniston]

Todd Denniston wrote:
> 
> ravish agarwal wrote:
> >
> > Hi Todd,
> > thanx for the information. But here is still a problem. The setup for
> > cvs-1.11.1p1 is not available on the link you have specified. can you
> > please give any other link where I can find that binary. Also please
> > tell me if I need to do version upgrade which version is the best to
> > install. and will there be any issues related to version upgrade of
> > CVS.
> > regards
> > Ravish
> 
> You really should upgrade because of the security upgrades.
> If you REALLY have to stick with 1.11.1p1 I believe you have two choices:
> 1) copy every thing from the cvs install you have on the old machine.
> 2) compile and install 1.11.1p1 from source, which you can get from the
> site[1].
> 
> But you really should go with a newer[3] version.
> 
Sorry, I missed responding part of the questions.
 cvs-1.11.20 is the latest stable, it should have the least (probably does
not really have any) unexpected changes since cvs-1.11.1p1. Given your
reluctance to upgrade at all 1.11.20 is your best choice.

There should be no issues upgrading to 1.11.20 unless you were doing some
behaviors which were contraindicated for a long time like:
moving or deleting branch tags without -B.
using Checkin.prog and Update.prog functionality.
Method options (used by WinCVS & CVS 1.12.7+) in CVSROOTs are ignored.

see the following link for full details up through 1.11.19
https://ccvs.cvshome.org/files/documents/19/746/NEWS.1.11.19
Not sure why 1.11.20 is not listed in the archive directory.

For a though upgrade it should not hurt to run `cvs init` to get any NEW
config files.

<SNIP>
> [1]
> https://ccvs.cvshome.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=193&expandFolder=193&folderID=77
> 
> [3]
> https://ccvs.cvshome.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=87&expandFolder=87&folderID=80
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