Re: Fix for checking out inside of repository with nfs and automo unt

[Donald Sharp]

On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 05:11:11PM -0500, Cameron, Steve wrote:
> 
>       Donald Sharp wrote:
> 
>       [...] 
> 
> > This patch modifies the current behaviour of checkout.c, safe_location()
> > to assume that you are not inside of the repository if you are using cvs
> > in a remote manner.
>       [smc]  is this a safe assumption?  If I have my home driectory nfs

I don't know if it is a safe assumption. 

It assumes that when people use remote repositories the drive
that the repository is on is not available any where else.

> (auto)mounted everywhere, and thus my .login is the same everywhere, and so
> likely, .login sets CVSROOT to be something remote (rsh), even if I'm logged
> in on the CVS server..., (so that if I then later login somewhere else, and
> access my NFS mounted home dir where I checked out something,  the CVS/Root
> files will still be correct and CVS will still work in that sandbox...,
> which it wouldn't if my login differentiated between local and remote and
> set CVSROOT differently....)

But the repository isn't in your home directory right?

donald
> 
>       All it takes is to type the right command into the wrong window...
> ("init 6" seems to be one of my favorites. :-)  
> 
>       (Not neccessarily that I mean to imply that the patch isn't an
> improvement over the previous state of affairs.)
> 
>       -- steve 
> 
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