Hi Tomas,

> ? Even on Windows, there exist a "home" directory. And the default
location
> of the .cvspass is in your home directory.

It is supposed to be so, but real windows CVS clients does not work in this
way. They look into C:\. Furthermore, under Windows the user's home
directory is not named "HOME".
In order to be less dependent on various systems we decided to require that
CVS_PASSFILE is always specified explicitly.
If you don't like the default setting, just change it. To avoid changing it
every time the new build is out you can define CVS_PASSFILE explicitly in
your system. The "unusual" default is chosen because various Windows systems
may define various variables (or variable combinations) that point to the
user's home. Or on some systems the variable may not be defined or defined
incorrectly.  Specifying the explicit default value also makes the bat-file
less system dependent.

Best regards,
Eugene Zhuravlev
IntelliJ Software, http://www.intellij.com/
"Develop with pleasure!"


----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Singer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 13:20
Subject: Re: [Eap-list] CVS_PASSFILE


> Hi Eugene,
>
> why CVS_PASSFILE is initialized in idea.bat with a non-standard
C:\.cvspass
> ? Even on Windows, there exist a "home" directory. And the default
location
> of the .cvspass is in your home directory.
>
> Tom
>
> At 12:28 20.02.02 +0300, you wrote:
> >Hi Thomas,
> >
> >Why not setting the CVS_PASSFILE variable to point to $HOME/.cvspass ?
> >
> >Best regards,
> >Eugene Zhuravlev
> >IntelliJ Software, http://www.intellij.com/
> >"Develop with pleasure!"
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Thomas Singer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 11:51
> >Subject: [Eap-list] CVS_PASSFILE
> >
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > what do you think about that:
> > >
> > > If no CVS_PASSFILE environment variable is set, don't add the
> > > -DCVS_PASSFILE="%CVS_PASSFILE%" to the java(w)-command line of IDEA.
IDEA
> > > automatically knows, that it should take the default one:
$HOME/.cvspass .
> > >
> > > It's a little bit annoying, that after a new IDEA release I have to
edit
> > > the idea.bat file or have two .cvspass hanging around on my system.
> > >
> > > Tom
> > >
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