[cvsnt] Re: Repository prefix and $CVSROOT

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Wed Jan 28 13:10:43 GMT 2004


Community technical support mailing list was retired 2010 and replaced with a professional technical support team. For assistance please contact: Pre-sales Technical support via email to sales@march-hare.com.


On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 13:14:37 +0100, "Erich Conka" <econka at softip.sk>
wrote:

>My repository is in folder e:/cvs_reps/test
>I set up 'Repository prefix' to e:/cvs_reps and 'Valid Repository Root' to
>/test in CVSNT (2.0.11) configuration. I set up 'Path' to /test in WinCVS.
>When I use $CVSROOT variable in loginfo file, value is '/test'. How can I
>get full path ('e:/cvs_reps/test')?
>
You can't - that's the whole point of the prefix.  There are still the
occasional error messages that give it out and I'm working through
them, but the client shouldn't really know about the directory
structure on the server.

Tony




More information about the cvsnt mailing list
Download the latest CVSNT, TortosieCVS, WinCVS etc. for Windows 8 etc.
@CVSNT on Twitter   CVSNT on Facebook