[cvsnt] Re: Change of server address

[Bo Berglund]

On Tue, 25 May 2004 10:09:52 +0100, "Harrison, Andrew"
<andy.harrison at anite.com> wrote:

>The CVS\Root files stores the CVSROOT of the repository. In the case of a
>server pc crash I can easily reinstall CVS-NT and restore backups onto a new
>server, but this will have a different CVSROOT. Is there an easy way to get
>existing sandboxes to use a new CVSROOT without doing a new checkout or
>manually editing all the CVS\Root files.
>
>We're using WinCVS if that makes a difference.
>
Did you at all check the capabilities of WinCvs?
If you select a module folder and then go to Macros/CVS you will find
the macro Change CVSROOT. It does exactly what you are looking for.


/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)