Re: cvs co understands CVSROOT not understood by cvs up

[Derek Robert Price]

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Alexander Taler wrote:

> Mark> I believe that 'localhost/tmp/mdb.testit should either not be
> legal, or Mark> should have the CVS/Root be the changed to be the
> canonical form of it.
>
> Derek> Personally, in a case like this, I would favor the logical
> minimum Derek> (host/path), since it does not actually exclude the
> nominally more Derek> human readable form containing colons or
> other "odd" symbols.
>
> From your responses I deduce an agreement that CVS should support
> the degenerate localhost/var/cvs form of the CVSROOT.  Following is
> a sanity.sh patch to 1.11 to exercise this case.


Looking at this now.  Incidentally, if I didn't mention it before,
Mark.  I don't have a problem with storing the canonical root in CVS/Root.

Cheers,

Derek
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