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Re: CVS_SERVER
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Mike Castle |
Subject: |
Re: CVS_SERVER |
Date: |
Wed, 1 Aug 2001 16:29:45 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.3.18i |
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 03:09:13PM -0700, Mark D. Baushke wrote:
> In any case, you might want to look back at my original implementation
> of root.c. If a user explicitly forced a 'cvs -d cvs-spec' it would
> trash all the existing data in the CVS/Root file and replace it with
> the information on the -d option. Later users choose to replace this
> capability with one that will just ignore the CVS/Root contents by
> setting an environment variable. I'm not sure this is a better way for
> a user to use the tool or not, but at least it is flexible enough for
> most folks to use cvs.
find . -type f | grep CVS/Root | xargs rm
cvs -d NEWROOT up
I'd never thought of that until now.
I'd never paid any attention to the solutions that people have posted to
"fixup" the checked out sandbox when a repository moved, so I'm not sure if
this was ever a proposed technique or not.
address@hidden:05pm]~/a(529) find . -type f | grep CVS/Root | xargs cat
/home/mcastle/foo
/home/mcastle/foo
/home/mcastle/foo
address@hidden:05pm]~/a(530) find . -type f | grep CVS/Root | xargs rm
address@hidden:05pm]~/a(531) cvs -d :local:~/foo up
cvs [update aborted]: CVSROOT ~/foo must be an absolute pathname
address@hidden:05pm]~/a(532) cvs -d :local:/home/mcastle/foo up
cvs update: Updating .
cvs update: Updating CVSROOT
cvs update: Updating test
M test/sdkdocs40.exe
? test/bar
address@hidden:05pm]~/a(533) find . -type f | grep CVS/Root | xargs cat
:local:/home/mcastle/foo
:local:/home/mcastle/foo
:local:/home/mcastle/foo
mrc
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- Re: CVS_SERVER, Mike Castle, 2001/08/01
- Re: CVS_SERVER, Greg A. Woods, 2001/08/01
- Re: CVS_SERVER, Mark D. Baushke, 2001/08/01
- Re: CVS_SERVER, Greg A. Woods, 2001/08/01
- Re: CVS_SERVER, Mark D. Baushke, 2001/08/01
- Re: CVS_SERVER, Mike Castle, 2001/08/01
- Re: CVS_SERVER, Greg A. Woods, 2001/08/01
- Re: CVS_SERVER, Larry Jones, 2001/08/14
- Re: CVS_SERVER, Greg A. Woods, 2001/08/14
- Re: CVS_SERVER, Larry Jones, 2001/08/14
Re: CVS_SERVER, Mike Castle, 2001/08/01