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Date:      Fri, 3 Dec 1999 23:59:16 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/cvs Makefile src/contrib/cvs/man cvs.1 src/contrib/cvs/src prepend_args.c prepend_args.h main.c
Message-ID:  <19991203235916.A885@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <19991204015712.8AEC71CC8@overcee.netplex.com.au>; from peter@netplex.com.au on Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 09:57:12AM %2B0800
References:  <obrien@FreeBSD.org> <19991204015712.8AEC71CC8@overcee.netplex.com.au>

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On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 09:57:12AM +0800, Peter Wemm wrote:
> Umm, this is what the .cvsrc file is for, and is MUCH more flexible..
...
> ie: .cvsrc works for both global options and options for specific cvs
> sub-commands.

Unless I can put `if' statements in there and test for various things
about a host, it isn't suffient.


I do use ~/.cvsrc, but on some hosts I want -R always and others I don't.
If the "CVSREADONLYFS" environmental variable had actually been
*documented* I wouldn't have added this code.  By the time I discovered
"CVSREADONLYFS" I was just putting the final touches on the man page.

> I think this is needless divergence from the main cvs source and should be
> backed out, especially since it duplicates existing functionality and reaches
> into the source of another package ("../diff").

I disagree.  Maybe you don't use NFS mounted home dirs across many
machines where you want different functionality on them, but I do.  Plus
``export CVS_OPTIONS="-f"'' has uses.
 
-- 
-- David    (obrien@NUXI.com)


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