[cvsnt] Re: Creating new repositories for experimentation

Glen Starrett grstarrett at cox.net
Tue Aug 24 23:31:56 BST 2004


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Siegfried Heintze wrote:

> I have my CVSROOT symbol defined in the SYSTEM environment table. I feel I
> need to take Glenn's advice and create a test repository to experiment with.
> If I use the -d qualifier with the cvs init command, can I be assured that
> the -d qualifier will override CVSROOT? I don't want to destroy my
> production repository.
>   Thanks,
>     Siegfried
> 

You are going to want to create the new repository via the control panel 
anyway, so the correct entries in the Windows Registry are written. 
That panel applet will take care of running the init command for you as 
well.


-- 
Glen Starrett



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