[cvsnt] refresh the repos
Torsten Martinsen
torsten at tiscali.dk
Fri May 23 21:20:23 BST 2003
Glen Starrett wrote:
>Since you're hacking anyway and will be backing everything up and testing
>anyway--you MIGHT try removing all copies of that file your sandboxes and
>renaming the file directly on the server, then updating again. I haven't
>heard of anyone trying this, but intuitively it makes sense based on the
>little I know of the inner-workings of CVSNT (is that enough caution I've
>impressed in this paragraph?). If this works, then you can keep all the old
>history but I don't know if the capitalization is kept anywhere else (take a
>peek in the RCS file itself and the files in CVSROOT, for example).
>
What WILL definitely work is
a) deleting the directory containing the file in all sandboxes on all
clients
b) renaming the file in the repository
c) updating on all clients.
-Torsten
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