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Thomas Keller wrote: > Hello there! > > My company still uses v1.11 of the original cvs and I could recently > persuade them to switch to cvsnt. Now my question is: > Is there anything special I need to do to move the cvs repositories > into cvsnt? Or is it enough to just copy the repository paths into > /etc/cvsnt/PServer? > Is there any possibility to move back from cvsnt to cvs at a time if it > is needed? Or is the rcs format completly incompatible due to the > new features of cvsnt? Its just that my boss likes to have an option to > return if anything fails - not that it would, but meh, he's... the boss. > > I've searched through the wiki and couldn't anything which dealed > with upgrading old cvs repositories . > Upgrade happens automatically. Downgrade is possible in limited circumstances, but it's not something I specifically support (using anything like binary or zipped deltas, or unicode will stop you going back though). Run it on a test machine first with a couple of users... when you're happy with your setup then backup your live server and make the switch. Tony