[cvsnt] Creating new repositories for experimentation

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Tue Aug 24 21:17:25 BST 2004


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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



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