From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Langhoff Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow passing of an alternative CVSROOT via -d. Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:25:32 +1300 Message-ID: <45D934CC.6080707@catalyst.net.nz> References: <45D88A14.4040400@fs.ei.tum.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Simon 'corecode' Schubert X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Feb 19 06:49:22 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HJ1Or-0001i6-BQ for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 06:49:21 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752950AbXBSFtJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Feb 2007 00:49:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752954AbXBSFtJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Feb 2007 00:49:09 -0500 Received: from godel.catalyst.net.nz ([202.78.240.40]:48577 "EHLO mail1.catalyst.net.nz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752950AbXBSFtI (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Feb 2007 00:49:08 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1407 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 00:49:08 EST Received: from leibniz.catalyst.net.nz ([202.78.240.7] helo=[192.168.2.69]) by mail1.catalyst.net.nz with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1HJ11t-0005zO-KR; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:25:37 +1300 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070103) In-Reply-To: <45D88A14.4040400@fs.ei.tum.de> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: > This is necessary if using CVS in an asymmetric fashion, i.e. when the > CVSROOT you are checking out from differs from the CVSROOT you have to > commit to. I guess you have an anon checkout and then use CVSROOT at commit time to switch to cvs-over-ssh perhaps even on a different server. In-te-rest-ing. I've never in my life used cvs this way -- or thought something like this would work. But if it works for you, I can only ACK it ;-) is "Assymmetric CVS" a known term for this practice? If not, it might be useful to flesh out what this is for in the docs. m -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin @ Catalyst .Net .NZ Ltd, PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington WEB: http://catalyst.net.nz/ PHYS: Level 2, 150-154 Willis St OFFICE: +64(4)916-7224 UK: 0845 868 5733 ext 7224 MOB: +64(21)364-017 Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler - Einstein -----------------------------------------------------------------------