From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to specify alternate CVSROOT in vc mode? Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 09:15:12 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1147879612 4718 80.91.229.2 (17 May 2006 15:26:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 15:26:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 17 17:26:51 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FgNsP-0002LP-3c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 17:23:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FgNsO-0004G9-Oo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 11:23:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FgNrG-0003cC-5d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 11:22:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FgNrE-0003Zz-Em for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 11:22:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FgNrE-0003Zp-8p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 11:22:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FgNu6-0005jV-Qn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 11:25:39 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FgNqX-0001sP-Cm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 17:21:57 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 17:21:57 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 17:21:57 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:35103 Archived-At: Roy Smith wrote: > Every once in a while, I'll be working in a cvs sandbox which I don't own > and will want to do something (non-destructive) like see the cvs log of the > file I'm viewing. In the shell, you need to do "cvs -d $CVSROOT log file" > to make this work. Is there any way to similarly supply the -d argument > inside of emacs vc mode? ,----[ C-h v cvs-cvsroot RET ] | cvs-cvsroot is a variable defined in `pcvs-defs.el'. | Its value is nil | | Documentation: | *Specifies where the (current) cvs master repository is. | Overrides the environment variable $CVSROOT by sending " -d dir" to | all CVS commands. This switch is useful if you have multiple CVS | repositories. It can be set interactively with M-x cvs-change-cvsroot. | There is no need to set this if $CVSROOT is set to a correct value. | | [back] `---- -- Kevin