Subject: Re: .../CVS/Root files and meaning of their life
To: None <pkoistin@cs.stadia.fi>
From: John Darrow <John.P.Darrow@wheaton.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 07/21/2001 15:17:53
Petri Koistinen <pkoistin@cs.stadia.fi> wrote:
>
>But does people realy need those hundreds of CVS/Root files for anything
>else? Why somebody would change CVS/Root content while she/he can delete
>them all and set $CVSROOT? I haven't had any problems after I removed all
>CVS/Root files.

Some people might have multiple cvs-managed projects checked out on the
same system from different cvs servers.  Those people cannot simply set
$CVSROOT, because the setting for one project is different from that
for another.  Thus they need CVS/Root files in each directory to tell
which server those directories came from...

(Of course, I'm annoyed that sup is now updating CVS/Entries files every
time, even for directories where nothing has changed, but that's another
issue...)

jdarrow

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