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Thanks Bo, It never occurred to me that you could put a password in the root! Just the kind of RTFM I was expecting but polite too. Yeah, the security thing doesn't bother me - the build and cvs servers are next to each other in the rack and are equally locked down... if people can hack one they can hack the other anyway :) I'm not sure that a fatalistic attitude to security is clever but it'll do me for now. Rob Bo Berglund wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:29:00 +0000, Rob Oxspring > <roxspring at imapmail.org> wrote: > >> The checkout / udpate commands are as follows, tagging also occurs but I >> assume that one solution will fit all: >> >> cvs -d :pserver:user at host:/repository checkout -P component >> >> cvs -d :pserver:user at host:/repository update -P -d -rBRANCH component >> >> > Provided that you are not concerned about the password of user (he can > be set up as a read-only user) and that you are checking out into an > empty folder so you are not updating existing sandboxes: > Change the commands thus: > > cvs -d :pserver:user:password at host:/repository checkout -P component > cd component > cvs update -P -d -rBRANCH > > By moving into the newly created sandbox in line 2 you can dispose of > the -d specifier to the cvs command altogether. > The password is of course cleartext here, which you might not want, > but you said you are not overly concerned about that, right? > > > /Bo > (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden) > _______________________________________________ > cvsnt mailing list > cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook > http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt https://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/en.asp#downcvs