[cvsnt] Re: Installation

Andreas Tscharner andreas.tscharner at metromec.ch
Fri Oct 22 10:15:05 BST 2004


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Mark D. Lincoln wrote:
> All,

Hi Mark,
> 
> We are currently running CVSNT 2.0.51a.  We would like to upgrade to the 
> latest version without interrupting our ongoing development operations.  Can 
> we just install the current version over the previous version or do we need 
> ot perform an uninstall first.  If we need to perform an uninstall, are 
> there any issues we should be aware of in this process?

I uninstall first and install again afterwards. It looks like the 
registry entries are not removed, CVSNT finds the defined repositories 
again without a problem...
> 
> By the way, we are also using TortoiseCVS for our CVS client and would like 
> to do an upgrade of it as well.  Does anyone know if we have to uninstall 
> with it or can we simple install the new version?  Thank you for you help...

Don't uninstall, just install over it. If you uninstall it, you'll lose 
the comment history.

Best regards
	Andreas
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Andreas Tscharner                          andreas.tscharner at metromec.ch
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