Re: CVS moved

It's rumoured that Jean-Michel POURE once said:
> Le Mercredi 17 Décembre 2003 10:03, Dave Page a écrit :
>> The cvs has now been moved. The new root is:
>> :pserver:user@cvs.pgadmin.org/projects
>> The IP address has also changed but will take a liitle while to work
>> it's way around the DNS - it is now 80.176.1.156.
>> I have left the old repository in place for now but made it read only,
>> primarily to prevent any scripts fouling up. I would suggest that a
>> fresh checkout is the easiest way to update to the new root.
>
> Dear Dave and all,

Hi Jean-Michel,

> I was able to make a fresh checkout, but then I could not update my
> local CVS  tree using the "cvs update -C -P -d" command.
>
> The error message is:
> /disk1/cvsroot: no such repository

You didn't do a fresh checkout then as that's not the new root. Change
/disk1/cvsroot to /projects and try again.
> Looking at my local copy, the CVS folder contains the following entry:
> :pserver:jmpoure@cvs.pgadmin.org:/disk1/cvsroot
>
> It seems that the new server does not have a /disk1 entry. This is a
> typical  problem with CVS, folders and files cannot be renamed.

No, that's why you need to do a fresh checkout from the new repo.

> Why not take the opportunity of this migration to use a sophiticated
> system  like subversion. There are very good subversion Win32 clients
> around like  http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org

Why, what features do we need that CVS lacks?

Regards, Dave