Re: cvs co understands CVSROOT not understood by cvs up

[Mark D. Baushke]

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Derek Robert Price <derek@ximbiot.com> writes:

> Alexander Taler wrote:
> 
> > Mark> I believe that 'localhost/tmp/mdb.testit should either not be
> > legal, or Mark> should have the CVS/Root be the changed to be the
> > canonical form of it.
> >
> > Derek> Personally, in a case like this, I would favor the logical
> > minimum Derek> (host/path), since it does not actually exclude the
> > nominally more Derek> human readable form containing colons or
> > other "odd" symbols.
> >
> > From your responses I deduce an agreement that CVS should support
> > the degenerate localhost/var/cvs form of the CVSROOT.  Following is
> > a sanity.sh patch to 1.11 to exercise this case.
> 
> 
> Looking at this now.  Incidentally, if I didn't mention it before,
> Mark.  I don't have a problem with storing the canonical root in CVS/Root.

Storing the canonical CVS/Root would be my suggested fix for the problem
in the long term... including a FQDN for the hostname...

        -- Mark
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