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Re: How to specify alternate CVSROOT in vc mode?
From: |
Kevin Rodgers |
Subject: |
Re: How to specify alternate CVSROOT in vc mode? |
Date: |
Wed, 17 May 2006 09:15:12 -0600 |
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Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) |
Roy Smith wrote:
Every once in a while, I'll be working in a cvs sandbox which I don't own
and will want to do something (non-destructive) like see the cvs log of the
file I'm viewing. In the shell, you need to do "cvs -d $CVSROOT log file"
to make this work. Is there any way to similarly supply the -d argument
inside of emacs vc mode?
,----[ C-h v cvs-cvsroot RET ]
| cvs-cvsroot is a variable defined in `pcvs-defs.el'.
| Its value is nil
|
| Documentation:
| *Specifies where the (current) cvs master repository is.
| Overrides the environment variable $CVSROOT by sending " -d dir" to
| all CVS commands. This switch is useful if you have multiple CVS
| repositories. It can be set interactively with M-x cvs-change-cvsroot.
| There is no need to set this if $CVSROOT is set to a correct value.
|
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Kevin