customizing the "cvs" command

customizing the "cvs" command

[Philippe_Moutarlier]

I cannot find any ways to customize the call to cvs itself in PCL-CVS.
I am using it from a remote site and would very much like to be able to use
compression , i.e
redefine the cvs command as being "cvs -z9" for example.

Am I missing something or is this currently impossible ?

Thanks,

Philippe

Re: customizing the "cvs" command

[Romain FRANCOISE]

Philippe Moutarlier writes:

> I cannot find any ways to customize the call to cvs itself in PCL-CVS.

PCL-CVS gets its configuration from the CVS preference file, which is
usually ~/.cvsrc. Mine is, for example:

cvs -z3
checkout -P
update -P -d

If you change this file, you can use the `cvs-reread-cvsrc' command to
update your settings; without having to stop Emacs or unload pcvs.

        Romain.

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Re: customizing the "cvs" command

[Ami Fischman]

Philippe_Moutarlier@3com.com writes:

> I cannot find any ways to customize the call to cvs itself in PCL-CVS.

The variable cvs-cvs-flags holds the flags, but not in a very
straight-forward way.

> I am using it from a remote site and would very much like to be able to use
> compression , i.e
> redefine the cvs command as being "cvs -z9" for example.

Create a file ~/.cvsrc and put:
cvs -z9 
in it.  I also have 
update -d
in my ~/.cvsrc. 

> Am I missing something or is this currently impossible ?

I couldn't find references to either the cvs-cvs-flags var or the ~/.cvsrc
file in the documentation.  The .cvsrc file is a cvs thing (i.e.,
command-line cvs should use the same file), and is documented in the cvs
manpage.  

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