Re: Overriding CVS/Root with pserver

[Ed]

On Thursday May 1 2003 12:55, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Thursday, May 1, 2003 at 10:48:09 (-0600), Ed wrote: ]
>
> > Subject: Re: Overriding CVS/Root with pserver
> >
> > On Thursday May 1 2003 10:37, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > > [ On Thursday, May 1, 2003 at 10:10:16 (-0600), Ed wrote: ]
> > >
> > > > Subject: Overriding CVS/Root with pserver
> > > >
> > > > Suppose I have a working directory on host devbox, and the CVS/Root
> > > > admin file contains ":pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot".  Is there a
> > > > way for address@hidden to override this to login and/or commit
> > > > changes to this working directory as, say, address@hidden,
> > > > *without* modifying the .../CVS/Root setting?  It seems any CVSROOT
> > > > env setting is ignored during login.  I know this is not considered
> > > > kosher, but is there a way?
> > >
> > > However why can't you just copy the working directory and modify the
> > > CVS/Root files in the copy?
> >
> > The number of files and directories and distinct cvsserver users
> > needing to do this makes that impractical.
>
> Then I would humbly suggesst that using CVS is impractical for your
> purposes.

I respectfully suggest that you'd be quite mistaken.  The previously noted 
solution works great and is exactly what we needed, along with a little 
additional tweaking.  Sometimes the ideal setup is simply infeasible for a 
variety of reasons, and yet there remains great value in deploying CVS.  
That speaks pretty well for CVS versatility.