[Techtalk] Moving project to different cvs repository

[Karen Locke]

Cynthia is right, it's easier and safer to just have one repository if you (or 
other people working on the machine) use both projects.  If you have a 
multiple-user situation where nearly nobody works on both projects, using 
different CVSROOTs can be a feature -- depends on the politics of the group.

Karen 

On Monday 28 July 2003 11:31, Cynthia Kiser wrote:
> Quoting tiera <tiera at hotpop.com>:
> > On Monday 28 July 2003 18.17, Karen Locke wrote:
> > > Why merge the repositories?
> >
> > I thought I had to.
>
> Why would you not want to? Do you have them configured differently?
> (not just containing different projects).
>
> > > If they're unrelated, you might just want to
> > > move the one from computer 1 to computer 2.  I suppose that does mean
> > > you have to keep track of what value of $CVSROOT you have when you want
> > > to access one or the other.  But it's otherwise clean and easy.
> >
> > Thanks for the idea. I didn't know I could have two cvs-roots. But that
> > sounds like the easiest way.
>
> Do you have the 2 repositories configured differently?  e.g. different
> permission groups for pserver? or different scripts that you run upon
> commit? If so, then having 2 different repositories on the same
> machine might make sense. But from your original post, I got the
> impression that you had a pretty vanilla CVS repository on each
> machine. If your cvs configuration is the same, then just moving the
> project directories into the cvsroot on machine one is a lot easier
> than having to re-set $CVSROOT all the time.