From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: roy@panix.com (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to specify alternate CVSROOT in vc mode? Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 15:52:50 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1147884064 22753 80.91.229.2 (17 May 2006 16:41:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 16:41:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 17 18:41:02 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 1FgP4y-0002dn-NG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 18:40:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FgP4x-0003af-5p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 12:40:55 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1147881170 3211 166.84.1.2 (17 May 2006 15:52:50 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 15:52:50 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:139485 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:35109 Archived-At: In article , Kevin Rodgers wrote: >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] >`---- Thanks! That's exactly what I was looking for.