Somewhat belated answer here: I wrote: > I run a CVS server on FreeBSD, currently cvs v1.11.5 because that's what > came with my FreeBSD installation. I access this server from the same > FreeBSD box, from another FreeBSD box, and from an assortment of Windows > machines, currently all using standard CVS under Windows. > > I'm wondering if I can install CVSNT on the server FreeBSD box and start > letting Windows machines use that as their server instead of the standard > CVS on that box, without causing problems such as repository corruption, > incompatible repository changes made by one server and unreadable by the > other, etc. I assume I'd be fine suddenly making everyone use the CVSNT > server, but then I'd be worried about updates to FreeBSD itself, which might > make use of the stock CVS.
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:50:43AM -0400, Carucci, Jason wrote: > Why not just keep the CVS installation the same on your server and install > CVSNT on your Windows machines? This is the setup that I'm using and it > works just fine. I understand that a CVSNT server supports features that the stock CVS server does not support, and that CVSNT clients use those features to great advantage. I therefore figured I'd need a CVSNT server to make it worthwhile to use CVSNT clients. Wrong? -- Doug Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dlee.org Bartimaeus Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bartsite.com "Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on to say, `Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?'" --Marcus Aurelius _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
