RE: CVS bookmarker or addressbook

[Thornley, David]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Robottom Reis [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 2:08 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: CVS bookmarker or addressbook
> 
> 
> 
> Us people that delve in the maze of Free Software 
> repositories have one
> task that's dull -- keeping track of the CVSROOT strings for 
> every project
> we want to pull.
> 
> Is there something shell-oriented that provides something like that? A
> means to add and use root strings by a key or an index? This would be
> quite useful, and I'm sure I'm not the only one looking. :-)
> 
I don't understand the problem.  Each project has a CVSROOT string that is a
pain to type, but usually you need to type it precisely twice.  After that,
the information is in the CVS/Root file for the project, and the password
is in ~/.cvspass.

For example, I've got a local checkout of CVS here somewhere.  If I have
that as a working directory, CVS will assume I mean to use the cvshome
repository, and everything works just fine.