[NTLUG:Discuss] CVS question - matter of style or ignorance

Robert Citek rwcitek at alum.calberkeley.org
Thu Aug 26 19:39:55 CDT 2004


On Thursday, Aug 26, 2004, at 19:21 US/Central, Will Senn wrote:
> I'm reading the book - Pragmatic Version Control: Using CVS by Thomas 
> and Hunt, in it the authors create a CVS repository:
> cvs -d ~/sandbox init
>   ...
> in otherwords isn't the sandbox where you'd 'play'?

You are correct.  That the book has that in it is very odd.  Definitely 
a typo.  For a cross reference, here are my notes on creating a local 
CVS repository:

   http://www.cwelug.org/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?Creating_A_Local_CVS_Repository

Regards,
- Robert




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