add cvs -W option to disable -R/CVSREADONLYFS

Norikatsu Shigemura nork at FreeBSD.org
Tue Mar 9 09:08:18 PST 2004


On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 15:50:28 +0200
Ruslan Ermilov <ru at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > 	Although I am checkout-ing well by using cvs -R in ~/.cvsrc,
> > 	when I want to commit, It is prevented by -R.  So I wanted to
> > 	disable this feature.  Although control by the environment
> > 	variable CVSREADONLYFS was also considered, honestly it is
> > 	troublesome.
> I also have -R in most of my ~/.cvsrc's, and when I need to commit,
> I just use "cvs -f" (for local repos).  For remote repos, -R is not

	Ah, I didn't notice it!  It's a good idea.

> a problem (it's not passed on the wire) unless you happen to have
> it set in ~/.cvsrc on the repository host.  Even in this case, it

	Yes, so I did not care.  Recently I noticed.

> is still possible to commit by setting CVS_SERVER="cvs -f" in the
> environment of the committing host.

	I almost used and tuned for ports.  But now, I'm using local
	repositry for linuxpluginwrapper and my products.  I'm tired
	to change mode:-).


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