[cvsnt] Re: Cvsroot on network share

[John Peacock]

McCullough, Ryan wrote:
> I think you don't understand the problem. I am a developer in this
> organization. I do not manage the CVS repository.

I have to agree with Bo, here.  You don't understand that CVSNT is 
primarily a client-server application.  Although you can access the 
repository directly, it is almost always the wrong thing to do (for more 
than one developer).  Your organization is risking corrupting the 
repository by trying to share the repository in this fashion.  You could 
get away with it using strictly *nix access via NFS, but it will be much 
more likely to cause problems going forward.

Now that the project is going multiplatform, you should strongly 
recommend that the Windows users get access to the repository via a 
CVSNT server process, which can run on any Linux box that has access to 
the NFS drive mount.  This will help prevent the CR/LF problems as a 
nice side effect.

John

p.s. if you really want to access the repository directly, you need to 
add the protocol :local: to the cvsroot that you pass in -d, since cvsnt 
will assume you are talking to a server, in your case located on localhost.