Re: CVSROOT must be an absolute pathname problem

[Larry Jones]

Ganeshram Madhavan writes:
> 
> But commit is capable of working with absolute file names, and *NOT*
> other commands

Not in client/server mode:

        $ cvs -d:fork:/tmp/cvstest ci -m. /tmp/CVSROOT/loginfo
        absolute pathname `/tmp/CVSROOT' illegal for server

As far as I know, *all* CVS commands work fine with absolute paths in
local mode but none of them work with absolute paths in client/server
mode.

-Larry Jones

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