RE: CVS/Root should record the CVS_RSH environment value...

[Shankar Unni]

Greg Woods wrote:

> > An extension along the lines:
> >   :ext-rsh:address@hidden:/path/to/repo

> That could solve the problem as well, but seems to me to be 
> the wrong approach....

Indeed, it's not general enough. I wonder if it's not better to have a
single file under the CVS subdirectory that encapsulates all the
"environmental" info needed for cvs to operate on that work area.
Something like CVS/Environment, containing:

  CVSROOT=...   # why have a separate Root and Repository file?
  CVS_RSH=...
  # anything else

Or any of these entries could be split up enough to make external text
processing easier (like Root and Repository are separated these days).  
--
Shankar.