Re: checking out to remote working directory

[Michael Sims]

At 09:15 PM 2/16/2002 -0500, Aden, David wrote:
> The dev environment I'm in requires the ability to checkout files to a 
> working directory that does not live on the developer's machine. (The 
> Repository machine and the machine hosting the working directory live in a 
> data center right next to each other -- the developers are remote.)
>
> The environment is NT. We could have the developers map a drive from the 
> remote developer's machine to the working dir but I would like to avoid 
> that pain over the Internet.
>
> is there anyway to specify a different working dir to check files out to 
> other than the "current directory"?

I don't know the answer to that (my suspicion is it's "no") but I have a 
suggestion.  Install Cygwin on the NT server hosting the developer sandbox, 
and setup the Cygwin sshd to run as a service.  This will provide you with 
a free SSH server.  Then have your developers use a windows SSH client such 
as PuTTY to connect to the sandbox and issue their cvs commands.  It 
requires your developers to learn how to use the command-line cvs client, 
but IMHO the effort is more than worth it.

This is the method that I use (I do web development with PHP on both 
Apache/Linux and IIS/NT) and it works great for me!  If you have any 
questions feel free to ask...