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Oliver Giesen wrote: >>-d on the command line should override anything. > > > Doesn't it depend on the command? I believe commands like Update, Add, Log > or Edit will always ignore the -d option and instead read their CVSROOT from > the sandbox metadata (i.e. ./CVS/Root), or aren't they? AFAIHU only > repository-oriented commands like Init, Import, RLog, RTag, etc. honor > the -d option. I think that even Checkout would ignore the -d option when > used to update a sandbox. True? -d will always be honoured, but the effect might not be what you want... It's basically not a good idea to override it in that manner.. doing a 'cvs update' on the wrong repository will result in all your sandbox files disappearing... Tony