[cvsnt] Re: Migrating from windows Xp to linux

[Glen Starrett]

Gerhard Fiedler wrote:

>Glen Starrett wrote:
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>>>I´m planning to transfer my projects from a Windows XP machine with the
>>>2.0.31 version to a Linux machine with a newer version (2.0.58d ?).
>>>Have anyone done something like this? Keeping the history data of files
>>>is necessary. What would be the tasks to perform?
>>>I couldn´t find help in the Reference Manual or the wiki.
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>>Copy over the repository files to Linux.  Make sure you don't have any 
>>CRLF translations on (e.g. in WinZIP).  It should work fine and keep all 
>>history.
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>>There's a page that talks about moving the other direction, what you're 
>>doing is basically the reverse.
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>>http://www.cvsnt.org/wiki/MoveFromLinux
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>Isn't there a problem with file or directory names with spaces when moving
>to Linux? Or do they get handled properly by the un-tar procedure?
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Not sure -- I haven't tried it.  However, FWICT Linux handles spaces in 
file names just fine.

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Glen Starrett