Re: Gotta cvs admin files (CVSROOT) question...

[Larry Jones]

Luna, Glen writes [about merging repositories]:
> 
> Of course both repositories have a CVSROOT directory and each has a
> "history" and a "val-tags" file.
> 
> On the beta machine (which is what we care about....the alpha machine holds
> code belonging
> a vendor....COTS to us), is it a simple matter to merge the contents of
> these two files from
> the two repositories? The merged files will be housed on the beta machine.

You don't need to merge the val-tags files -- the missing tags will be
discovered and added whenever they're used for the first time.  On the
other hand, they're easy to merge: "sort -u" should do nicely.

The history file is used only by the history subcommand -- if you don't
care about that, there's no need to merge the files.  If you do, then it
should suffice to simply concatenate them together (of course, you could
remove any entries for foreign stuff first if you want).

-Larry Jones

I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts. -- Calvin