Re: Help....

[Derek R. Price]

Larry Jones wrote:

> 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.

Donald Sharp proposed what I think is the proper fix to this some time ago on
bug-cvs:

    http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg00852.html

Unfortunately he never implemented it.  Patches will be happily accepted.  :)

Derek

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