Re: Help....

[Larry Jones]

Ingolf Steinbach writes:
> 
> Do you have a pointer to information on which commands are affected? We
> have used this method for a while on a busy CVS server without encountering
> any porblems. Would it make sense to modify these assertions for future CVS
> releases such that symbolic links work?

It seems to me that it's mostly the r* commands, but I'm not sure.  The
problem is that CVS tends to change directory inside the repository and
then do pwd to find out where it is.  If the root is a symlink, the
result of the pwd doesn't start with the CVSROOT and CVS gets terminally
confused.

-Larry Jones

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