Re: backup of a cvs repository

[Mark D. Baushke]

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John <address@hidden> writes:

> To do a backup of a CVS repository, we have to lock it. Is it enough
> to put a #cvs.rfl in $CVSROOT ?

Not really.

You would want a read lock file in all of the directories of the
repository, not just at the top-level $CVSROOT directory...

You may wish to look for cvslock

  http://www.zevils.com/doc/cvsbook/cvsbook_8.html#SEC273
  http://cvs.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/cvslock/cvslock.c

I don't believe any of the currently released versions deal with LockDir
or promotable locks (#cvs.pfl), so you may end up needing to hack things
a bit to use it.

        -- Mark
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