Re: Overriding CVS/Root with pserver

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Thursday, May 1, 2003 at 10:48:09 (-0600), Ed wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Overriding CVS/Root with pserver
>
> On Thursday May 1 2003 10:37, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > [ On Thursday, May 1, 2003 at 10:10:16 (-0600), Ed wrote: ]
> >
> > > Subject: Overriding CVS/Root with pserver
> > >
> > > Suppose I have a working directory on host devbox, and the CVS/Root
> > > admin file contains ":pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot".  Is there a way
> > > for address@hidden to override this to login and/or commit changes to
> > > this working directory as, say, address@hidden, *without* modifying
> > > the .../CVS/Root setting?  It seems any CVSROOT env setting is ignored
> > > during login.  I know this is not considered kosher, but is there a
> > > way?
> > However why can't you just copy the working directory and modify the
> > CVS/Root files in the copy?
> 
> The number of files and directories and distinct cvsserver users needing to 
> do this makes that impractical.

Then I would humbly suggesst that using CVS is impractical for your purposes.

Every user really should have their own private working directory, and
there really shouldn't be any problem with any user having multiple
working directories if they need them.

I keep several active working directories with source trees for whole
operating systems in them (that's at least tens of thousands of files
each).

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                                                                Greg A. Woods

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