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From: Larry Jones
Subject: Re: (no subject)
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 13:30:01 -0400 (EDT)

Sangeetha Parthasarathy writes:
> 
> I have two repositories. One repository-1 is set as CVSROOT in the =
> environment. Another repository-2 is is set as CVSROOT in the current =
> window-terminal. The CVSROOT that should be effective for the =
> window-terminal is the CVSROOT set for that window, isn't it ? Then why =
> does,
> cvs log
> AND
> cvs -q tag <tag name>
> 
> execute with CVSROOT set in the environment.

It doesn't.  CVSROOT is only used when you're not in a working
directory.  When you *are* in a working directory, CVS uses the root
setting you used when you checked out the directory unless you override
it with -d on the command line.

-Larry Jones

I hate it when they look at me that way. -- Calvin



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