[cvsnt] Re: Upgrading to 2.0.58d

[Nitzan Shaked]

> >I am not. Is it otherwise safe?
>
> Tony claims so and many people are using it right now. I have the
> 2.0.62.1817 on my test server and it seems fine but I don't use it a
> whole lot, especially during the holiday season...

Okay, thanks.

> I would say that *copying* the files while retaining file permissions
> is an operating system thing rather than a CVS thing. A copy will in
> any case *not* preserve anything like permissions. After the copy you
> will have the same permissions on the coped files as you have on the
> folder where you placed the copy into. Any permissions on the old tree
> stays there and is not copied.

Of course it is an OS thing. My question was: if I do it, will everything
work the way it used to? From your answer I gather "yes".

[snip]

> I have also read about CYGWIN but I have never used it. Seems like it
> causes a great deal of confusion and problems on the Windows platform,
> so why not simply get rid of it? What use is it?

It's good because I work on the command line and I want such tools as awk,
sed, grep, sh, etc etc etc.

N.