Laurent Julliard writes:
> Loic Dachary wrote:
>
> > > I guess a /home/large_tmp or /audio-video/large_tmp should be created
> > > and then use the -T argument of cvs to specify the new cvs temp
> > > directory. Shouldn't the /cvsroot dir be moved to /audio-video as well
> > > by the way?
> >
> > The problem is that there are subtle bugs when using a separate
> > LockDir (which is the case of all projects) on repositories with symbolic
> > links in them (which is why cvsroot was moved to / in the first place).
> >
>
> I'm far from a cvs expert but I don't think there is any relation
> between a CVS repo lock dir and the temporary directory I'm speaking of
> here. The temp dir I'm speaking about is used as a transient storage
This is correct, I was only refering to the suggested move of /cvsroot.
If we plan to move /cvsroot, it must not involve symlinks. This is unrelated
to the temporary directory thing.
> space for committed files. Once the committed files are all in this
> space then the real commit process can start and this is where the
> LockDir palys a role.
>
> See http://www.gnu.org/manual/cvs-1.9/html_chapter/cvs_20.html#SEC89 for
> more information.
Regarding the temporary directory, we could of course point it
to somewhere else.
Cheers,
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