Bulgrien, Kevin writes:
>
> Does anyone know how cvs -s works? I found one way to get it to work
> but it seems more limited than I would have thought from reading the
> book.
The documentation seems quite clear to me -- -s sets a CVS user
variable. CVS user variables are not environment variables as you seem
to think.
> Does the following imply that -s only works to
> set values in the administrative files?
Yes. In particular:
> If you want to pass a value to the administrative files which the user who
> is running CVS can specify, use a user variable. To expand a user variable,
> the administrative file contains ${=variable}.
Note carefully that it says "administrative file", not the script
invoked by the administrative file.
-Larry Jones
I don't think that question was very hypothetical at all. -- Calvin
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