Re: [Pythoncard-devel] [Fwd: SUBJECT: SourceForge.net: CVS service offering changes]

[Andy T. <an...@ha...>]

Alex Tweedly wrote:
> Andy Todd wrote:
> 
>>
>>>> On 5/12/06, Andy Todd <an...@ha...> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Please note this change in the SourceForge CVS service, happening this
>>>>> weekend. The biggest impact is that you'll need to use
>>>>> 'pythoncard.cvs.sourceforge.net' where you would previously use
>>>>> 'cvs.sourceforge.net'.
>>>>>
> Sorry, probably a really dumb question, but ... how do I make this change ?
> 
> I'm using Win XP and the command line version of cvs
> 
> My PythonCard tree has a CVS directory in each directory, which contains 
> a fie called ROOT, containing a sinle line like
> 
> :ext:ale...@cv...:/cvsroot/pythoncard
> 
> If I manually edit that to say
> 
> :ext:ale...@py...:/cvsroot/pythoncard
> 
> then I can (apparently successfully) use cvs in that directory.
> 
> But there must something I can do easier than finding and editing every 
> one of those files (ok, ok, it's a 10 minute programming effort to 
> modify findfiles to do this, but still, there must be a simple way to do 
> it in cvs, no ?
> 
>>>>> Whilst we're talking about version control, there hasn't been any
>>>>> response to my proposal to move to Subversion so I'm officially
>>>>> retracting it.
>>>>>
> After my struggles with CVS over the last week or two (some of which 
> may, or may not, have been the cvs flakiness prior to the update, and 
> some of which may have been upgrade problems, and some of which is my 
> lack of knowledge), I'd currently vote for a change to use anything 
> rather than CVS.
> 

The easiest thing that you can do is just to make a fresh CVS checkout. 
You should be able to identify what you've currently changed by running 
a cvs diff on your current working copy. You can then copy those changes 
to your new working copy and carry on as if nothing has happened.

Regards,
Andy
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