A little simpler would be a forced commit (cvs commit -f) of a key file
in CVSROOT

~Matt

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Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 2:50 PM
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Subject: Re: Rebuilding administrative file database

Ted Stern wrote:
> On 02 Mar 2006 14:34:24 -0800, Mark E. Hamilton wrote:
> 
>>Is there a way to force a rebuild of the $CVSROOT/CVSROOT
>>administrative files without doing a commit? For instance, if someone
>>removes the taginfo file is there a way to do the equivalent of a 'cvs
>>update -C' in that directory to refresh it (or all of them)?
> 
> 
> You could checkout CVSROOT somewhere, then copy the taginfo file back
> into $CVSROOT/CVSROOT.

Yes, that would work. I've nearly 200 repositories, and though I could 
write a script to do this I was hoping for a more elegant way. I also 
wanted to be sure to hit all the config files; I was just using taginfo 
as an example.

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Mark E. Hamilton
Orion International Technologies, Inc.
Sandia National Laboratory, NM.
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