Re: [RFC]

[Derek Robert Price]

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Alexey Mahotkin wrote:

|Derek and all,
|
|I am in a great need of a script which migrates working copies between
|CVS servers.
|
|It has to do so by editing CVS/Root appropriately, and do it reliably.
|I was just extremely bitten by a typo in `find' command.  Sorry, I
|will not repeat how it looked, but it cost me several thousand nerve
|cells no doubt.
|
|
|Tell me if this is not needed and someone has already written it and
|contributed to CVS.


I contributed a script called "newcvsroot.sh" not too long ago.  It's in
the contrib directory of the 1.12.x branch.  Be a little careful - it
might look like it handles spaces in directory names properly, but I
don't think it does.  That could probably be fixed using the -exec
argument to find rather than a for loop.

|I will call my script "cvs-migrate-wc" and will write it in perl, with
|full documentation.  If you have better naming suggestions -- share.


The newcvsroot.sh script is rather short and to ther point.  I didn't
think it deserved perl, but feel free.

|It is simple and trivial, anyone can write it.  We just have to get
|rid of this once and for all.
|
|
|--alexm, who has just destroyed half of a site which goes to
|production tomorrow, but almost restored it happily


Ouch.  Glad to hear you restored most of it.

Derek

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