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On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 16:25, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote=
:
> Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>
>> My guess is that cvsps is using CVS commands to access the test CVS
>> repository, and that CVS wants to write to the file CVSROOT/history =
to
>> log what is being done. =C2=A0The logging behavior can be turned off=
 either:
>> ...
>> Apparently -R and "$CVSREADONLYFS" were added in CVS 1.12.1, which w=
as
>> released in 2003.
>
> That unfortunately does not solve much. =C2=A0t9602 seems to want to =
create a
> new CVSROOT/val-tags file, so if =C3=86var wants to keep the source t=
ree
> read-only, the test CVS repository needs to be copied to a scratch pl=
ace.
>
> Perhaps something like this? =C2=A0I actually have to wonder why cvsI=
MPORT
> needs to write into anywhere, though.

That looks good. It's pretty much exactly what I was going to submit,
but I was waiting until you applied my other patches to pu (since
they'd with that patch as I changed the setup code in the skip patches
too).