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Gerhard Fiedler wrote: >Glen Starrett wrote: > > > >>>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. >>> >>> >>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. >> >>There's a page that talks about moving the other direction, what you're >>doing is basically the reverse. >> >>http://www.cvsnt.org/wiki/MoveFromLinux >> >> > >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? > > Not sure -- I haven't tried it. However, FWICT Linux handles spaces in file names just fine. -- Glen Starrett