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Date:      Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:32:53 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Unmoronify CVS
Message-ID:  <20020313203253.GA74829@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <p05101565b8b56678dd9f@[128.113.24.47]>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203131055300.70491-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <xzpsn74gtuj.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20020313113424.B4997@dragon.nuxi.com> <xzpg034gssa.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <p05101565b8b56678dd9f@[128.113.24.47]>

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* Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> [020313 12:29] wrote:
> At 8:40 PM +0100 3/13/02, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> >"David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> writes:
> > > WHY?  What problem is it causing you?
> >
> >Prevents checking out from ro repos;
> 
> You can check out from read-only repos, such as cd-rom drives.
> I know I've done it, but maybe I've only done it on openbsd.
> There's some option you have to include to 'cvs' so it won't
> try to write anything to the repository.  (I forget what it
> is though).

under freebsd's cvs 'cvs -R', under netbsd's 'cvs -u' or you
can export CVSREADONLYFS before running the command.

-Alfred

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