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RE: How to find out the CVSROOT and location in the repository of a w o


From: Noel Yap
Subject: RE: How to find out the CVSROOT and location in the repository of a w orking directory
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 04:07:10 -0700 (PDT)

--- "Reinstein, Shlomo" <address@hidden>
wrote:
> About the first possibility below, this was the
> first thing that I tried
> before I sent the message to the mailing list.
> I noticed that I have a problem with sticky dates: I
> cannot take the sticky
> date from the output of "cvs status" and just use
> "cvs update -D
> <sticky-date>". I need to do a format conversion,
> and moreover, I need to
> translate the timezone!
> 
> I preferred not to use the 2nd option because then I
> would need to add
> support for each OS/shell. (The copy command would
> be different.)
> 
> Just FYI, I am no longer interested in a solution
> for this because I am now
> taking a different approach to my problem, which
> avoids the need in any CVS
> operations. However, I have learned a few very
> valuable and interesting
> things during this discussion...

If you're working directly in the repo, beware of CVS
operations going on while you do so.  You may want to
create locks within the repo while you work in it.

Noel


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