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Date:      Sun, 9 Jan 2000 12:23:54 +0000
From:      Mike Bristow <mike@urgle.com>
To:        Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
Cc:        FreeBSD hackers list <FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: moving CVS repository
Message-ID:  <20000109122354.A33101@lindt.urgle.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000109124420.A60996@yedi.iaf.nl>; from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl on Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 12:44:20PM %2B0100
References:  <20000109124420.A60996@yedi.iaf.nl>

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On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 12:44:20PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> In the course of reorganising my disks I moved my local CVS repository
> from /local/CVSfoo to /local2/CVSfoo
> 
> This has the side-effect(?) that all sources checked out from the 'old'
> repository location have references to /local/CVSfoo whereas cvs update
> obviously wants to have the references to /local2/CVSfoo.

One way to do this would be to:
cd /local
ln -s CVSfoo ../local2/CVSfoo

And the tell your users that they have a week/month/whatever to
recheckout all their working sources.

> Wilko (who is not a cvs guru by any standard ;-)

Me neither, there's probably a better method (I'd guess that you can
frib some the files in CVS/ in the working direcrory, but I can't experiment
or read the docs for assorted reasons right now)

-- 
Mike Bristow, Geek At Large	         ``Beware of Invisible Cows''


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