Rondal Ellifritt writes: > > Thanks, Larry. I may well be suffering from many misconceptions, > common or otherwise, but that one doesn't explain my problem. We are, > in fact, all using different CVSROOT variables. (We get to the unix > environment using Exceed from a Windows environment, and we set a MYID > variable as part of the Exceed login script. We then use that in > .cshrc to set CVSROOT properly.)
Please read what I wrote again carefully. Setting the $CVSROOT environment variable has no effect when you're in an existing working directory: > > The CVSROOT for a particular > > directory is the one specified by the global -d option on the command > > line, if any; failing that, it's the one recorded in the CVS/Root file, > > if any; or, as a last resort, the one specified by the $CVSROOT > > environment variable. > > > > If you're all using the same Unix login, you're probably all using the > > same working directory, which means it's going to be inconvenient to get > > things to work the way you want -- you'll have to always specify CVSROOT > > on the command line. -Larry Jones I don't NEED to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway. -- Calvin _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
