[ale] relocating cvs

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Monday 29 September 2003 01:23 pm, Jason Vinson wrote:
> I deleted the whole tree on my local machine to test it, and I am still
> getting the same results.  Has anyone actually succesfully done this?

I've moved CVS trees, but never across architectures.  Was your solaris box a 
sparc box?  I wonder if the dreadedbig-endian/little-endian problem shows up 
in the CVS files somewhere subtle.  That would be very ugly.

Do the logs on your server say anything when it fails?

Michael

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zachary Link <zack at the-links.net>
> Sent: Sep 29, 2003 12:55 PM
> To: Jason Vinson <jason.vinson at mindspring.com>,
> 	Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> Subject: Re: [ale] relocating cvs
>
> Try deleting your local (client side) files and then doing a checkout from
> the new repository.  You are probably getting a conflict from the local
> CVS info on the client.
>
> Zack
>
>
> <quote who="Jason Vinson">
>
> > Hi ale'rs,
> >
> > I am attempting to relocate a cvs repository from a solaris box to a
> > debian box, and it's not working.  Has anyone had success with moving a
> > repository and retaining history?  I can check out the code fine, but if
> > I do an update or add it doesn't work (repository not found error).  I
> > even tried to emulate the tree to the repository with no luck.  Any
> > comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > TIA,
> > Jason
> >
> >
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