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Re: Fix for checking out inside of repository with nfs and automo unt
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Donald Sharp |
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Re: Fix for checking out inside of repository with nfs and automo unt |
Date: |
Thu, 24 May 2001 07:33:31 -0400 |
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On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 05:11:11PM -0500, Cameron, Steve wrote:
>
> Donald Sharp wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > This patch modifies the current behaviour of checkout.c, safe_location()
> > to assume that you are not inside of the repository if you are using cvs
> > in a remote manner.
> [smc] is this a safe assumption? If I have my home driectory nfs
I don't know if it is a safe assumption.
It assumes that when people use remote repositories the drive
that the repository is on is not available any where else.
> (auto)mounted everywhere, and thus my .login is the same everywhere, and so
> likely, .login sets CVSROOT to be something remote (rsh), even if I'm logged
> in on the CVS server..., (so that if I then later login somewhere else, and
> access my NFS mounted home dir where I checked out something, the CVS/Root
> files will still be correct and CVS will still work in that sandbox...,
> which it wouldn't if my login differentiated between local and remote and
> set CVSROOT differently....)
But the repository isn't in your home directory right?
donald
>
> All it takes is to type the right command into the wrong window...
> ("init 6" seems to be one of my favorites. :-)
>
> (Not neccessarily that I mean to imply that the patch isn't an
> improvement over the previous state of affairs.)
>
> -- steve
>
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