CVS

[Brown, David (Test Dept)]

I should specify that the users are using a TkCVS version for Windows (unfortunately). So there is no ~/


David (Doc) Brown
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-----Original Message-----
From: cinlug [mailto:cinlug-bounces at lists.cinlug.org] On Behalf Of Michael Schultheiss
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 11:14 AM
To: cinlug at lists.cinlug.org
Subject: Re: CVS

Brown, David   (Test Dept) wrote:
> Anyone know how to force TkCVS to use the $CVSROOT and ignore the 
> information stored in the CVS/root file which is created in the source 
> code directories?
> 
> If a :ext:userid at host:/usr/local/cvs   is inside the CVS/root file,
> then it seems to "override" the $CVSROOT environment variable.  

I haven't used CVS in over 13 years and I'm not familiar with TkCVS but some quick searching seems to point to a ~/.tkcvs config file or ~/.cvsrc file that may allow you to set something to ignore CVS/root

It looks like on the command line you could do cvs -d $CVSROOT <cvs_command>

but I don't know how to translate that to TkCVS.