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| author |  David Aspinall <da@inf.ed.ac.uk> | 2000-08-28 15:08:56 +0000 |
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| committer | David Aspinall <da@inf.ed.ac.uk> | 2000-08-28 15:08:56 +0000 |
| commit | 83f9969151bd1f8cdb6f99aba93910e000181935 (patch) | |
| tree | 1d82a84793186b45fef369df8495cf0e178f805e | |
| parent | 446d88999b4e7b7393dddd8729516b75ce3c241b (diff) | |
Note about CVSROOT setting.
| -rw-r--r-- | etc/cvs-tips.txt | 22 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/etc/cvs-tips.txt b/etc/cvs-tips.txt index ef220dd7..2d270e16 100644 --- a/etc/cvs-tips.txt +++ b/etc/cvs-tips.txt @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +----------------------------------------------------------------- Making a branch to patch a previous release: @@ -30,4 +31,23 @@ Then perhaps merge in branch changes into main stream: NB: this merging will always create conficts with $Id$ tags in source. (Is there a way to avoid this?) -
\ No newline at end of file + +----------------------------------------------------------------- + +Overriding the CVS/Root setting temporarily: + + Use + cvs -d $CVSROOT + +NB: This doesn't alter CVS/Root, but uses NEWROOT in preference. +($CVSROOT does not overide CVS/Root at all). + +Useful command: + + alias cvs='cvs -d $CVSROOT' + +to force this behaviour. + +This is needed to solve "localssh.dcs" versus "ssh.dcs" problem. + + |