Re: CVS:short path

[Bob Bowen]

> "Sawasy, Matthew" wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I'm currently in the process of installing CVS on Solaris.  One of the
> senior geeks wants the CVSROOT to be as simple as possible for the
> developers.  That being said my question is:
> 
> Do you know of a method in CVS of shortening the path from say
> 
> :pserver:address@hidden:/usr/local/cvs_rep
> 
> to
> 
> :pserver:address@hidden:/cvs_rep
> 
> while keeping the repository in /usr/local/cvs_rep and not using a
> symbolic link?

On our Linux system, we mount the repository on the desired path. I
would think Solaris would be able to do it, too. All it took was a line
in /etc/mtab like this:

localhost:/u2/CVS /cvs nfs rw,addr=127.0.0.1 0 0


In this particular case /u2/CVS is in a different filesystem, but I
don't think that's necessary (though using a filesystem other than root
is generally a good idea, IMHO).

Hope this helps,

=Bob=

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