Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> writes:

> IIRC, $CVSROOT has lower priority than both CVS/Root and the -d cvsroot
> option.  So it shouldn't hurt having CVSROOT set in your environment.  

In theory, I agree.  In practice, I had trouble because a coworker had
CVSROOT set and non-matching.

Because CVSROOT in environment is often wrong (I use a half-dozen
repositories daily), I consider it to be a sloppy practice.  But, I
can see the point that it's documented not to hurt.

-- 
        Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>