[cvsnt] How does one use network working directories?

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Wed Nov 5 01:16:52 GMT 2003


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Erik Anderson wrote:

 
> I would like to be able to run CVS on a working directory that cannot be
> made the current directory (i.e. a UNC path).  Is this possible with the
> current CVSNT?  I scoured the wiki and played around with a few file
> options, but nothing's come up yet.

Not possible, I'm afraid - cvs relies on being able to set the current
directory internally.

Also, running on network shares is not supported - it's been known to work,
but performance is poor, and you get various issues.  

Tony



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