How to switch cvs user in checked out directory

Question

My co-worker checked out our source tree from cvs and made some local changes, and then gave me a copy of the entire modified directory. When I try to do cvs operations on it, cvs is asking for his password. Is there a way to change the saved username in the cvs files within this directory so that I can continue working on it as if I had checked it out and made the changes?

We'd prefer not to check in this modified code or create any additional branches.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Found a solution:

A partial description is here: http://worldforge.org/doc/faq/cvs/#unix2

Here's what I did:

> find module_dir_name -regex .*CVS/Root -print0 | xargs -0 perl -p -i.orig -e "s/olduser/newuser/;"
> find module_dir_name -regex .*CVS/Root.orig -print0 | xargs -0 perl -p -i.orig -e "s/olduser/newuser/;"

Answer 2

Thanks for your solution, stupakov; it helped me a lot!. It can be slightly simpler (and more universal; I didn't have perl installed) with this command. Note that it handles both Root and Root.orig:

find module_dir_name -regex ".*CVS/Root\(.orig\)?" -print0 \
    | xargs -0 sed -i s/olduser/newuser/