Re: cvs co understands CVSROOT not understood by cvs up

[Derek Robert Price]

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Ok, I checked in a change to stable and feature that causes the
parse_cvsroot() function to always be used for root validation.  The
change also caches the parsed root when possible.  The change included
Alexander's new tests.

I did not try to change things to save a canonical root in CVS/Root,
nor will I soon, though I will not object to such a change and would
be likely to commit a complete patch if one were submitted.

Cheers,

Derek

Mark D. Baushke wrote:

> Derek Robert Price <derek@ximbiot.com> writes:
>
> >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.
>
>
> Storing the canonical CVS/Root would be my suggested fix for the problem
> in the long term... including a FQDN for the hostname...
>
>     -- Mark


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