Add CVS checkout update instructions.

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+2007-09-29  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+       * README: Add CVS checkout update instructions.
+       Info from Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>.
+
 2007-09-28  Eric Blake  <ebb9@byu.net>
 
        Provide move-if-change.

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@@ -243,6 +243,11 @@ For those among us who have tightly limited disk space and a fast network
 connection, CVS checkouts are also supported:
   $ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@pserver.git.sv.gnu.org:/gnulib.git co -d gnulib HEAD
 
+CVS checkouts from before 2007-09-19 can be converted to the new read-only CVS
+location through commands like these:
+  $ find . -name Root       -exec sed --in-place 's|.*|:pserver:anonymous@pserver.git.sv.gnu.org:/gnulib.git|' {} ';'
+  $ find . -name Repository -exec sed --in-place 's|^gnulib|/srv/git/gnulib.git/HEAD|' {} ';'
+
 Gnulib is hosted on savannah.gnu.org.  The project page is
 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnulib.