[cvsnt] Re: Upgrading

[Erik Anderson]

Heck, if all your sandbox files are checked out of the same repository and
login name like mine are, then all your Root files are identical, and you
need to simply overwrite all your copies with the new version.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Oliver Giesen" <ogware at gmx.net>
Newsgroups: support.cvsnt
To: <cvsnt at cvsnt.org>
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 10:23 AM
Subject: [cvsnt] Re: Upgrading


> P. Dwayne Miller wrote:
>
> > Did I miss something simple to convert each client from ntserver to
> > sspi?
>
> It's a simple search and replace operation. The CVSROOT is stored as
> plain-text in the hidden CVS subdirectories of your sandbox folders
> inside files called "Root". If you've got a search&replace tool that's
> capable of replacing only in files matching a certain mask, you could
> just recursively replace all occurrences of :ntserver: with :sspi: in
> the "Root" files. That's all there is to it.
> The built-in replace mechansim of syn (http://syn.sf.net) or Inforapid
> S&R (www.inforapid.com) are just two free tools I know to be able to do
> this. There should be gazillions more...
>
> Hope this helps.
>
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