Re: How can I convert from anonymous to real user account?

[David Trott]

This is a bit of a hack, but it worked for me (Use at your own risk).

1. TAKE A BACKUP OF EVERYTHING

2. Do an update of your anonymous copy so that you have the most up to date
version
3. Delete all of the administrative files from your anonymous copy
        on NT use a windows find for "CVS", select all then delete
        on Unix do: rm -rf `find . -type d -name CVS -print`
4. Checkout the current version using your real acount into a DIFFERENT
directory
5. Do a recursive copy from your anonymous directory to your real directory
6. Do an update
7. Add any new files.
8. Delete any dead file.
9. Commit it.

Hope this helps,
David


----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Hollenback" <address@hidden>
Newsgroups: gnu.cvs.help
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 8:15 PM
Subject: How can I convert from anonymous to real user account?


> I checked out a tree via anonymous CVS and proceeded to make a whole
> bunch of changes to it.  Now, I have an actual user account and want
> to check in my changes.
>
> The problem is that CVS caches the account name in CVS/Root.  Is there
> some way I can force CVS to use a different account?
>
> I want to do this because the changes are extensive and merging them
> into a freshly checked-out tree would be very cumbersome.
>