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Re: changing remote server for existing project
From: |
Larry Jones |
Subject: |
Re: changing remote server for existing project |
Date: |
Tue, 29 Jun 2004 18:40:56 -0400 (EDT) |
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
The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
-- Hobbes