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This is a complete list of all environment variables that affect CVS.
$CVSIGNORE
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A whitespace-separated list of file name patterns that CVS should ignore. See cvsignore. |
$CVSWRAPPERS
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A whitespace-separated list of file name patterns that CVS should treat as wrappers. See Wrappers. |
$CVSREAD
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If this is set, |
$CVSUMASK
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Controls permissions of files in the repository. See File permissions. |
$CVSROOT
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Should contain the full pathname to the root of the CVS
source repository (where the RCS files are
kept). This information must be available to CVS for
most commands to execute; if |
$EDITOR
$CVSEDITOR
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Specifies the program to use for recording log messages
during commit. |
$PATH
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If |
$HOME
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$HOMEPATH
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$HOMEDRIVE
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Used to locate the directory where the ` |
$CVS_RSH
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Specifies the external program which CVS connects with,
when |
$CVS_SERVER
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Used in client-server mode when accessing a remote
repository using RSH. It specifies the name of
the program to start on the server side when accessing
a remote repository using RSH. The default value
is |
$CVS_PASSFILE
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Used in client-server mode when accessing the |
$CVS_CLIENT_PORT
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Used in client-server mode when accessing the server via Kerberos. see Kerberos authenticated |
$CVS_RCMD_PORT
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Used in client-server mode. If set, specifies the port number to be used when accessing the RCMD demon on the server side. (Currently not used for Unix clients). |
$CVS_CLIENT_LOG
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Used for debugging only in client-server
mode. If set, everything send to the server is logged
into ` |
$CVS_SERVER_SLEEP
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Used only for debugging the server side in client-server mode. If set, delays the start of the server child process the specified amount of seconds so that you can attach to it with a debugger. |
$CVS_IGNORE_REMOTE_ROOT
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(What is the purpose of this variable?) |
$COMSPEC
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Used under OS/2 only. It specifies the name of the command interpreter and defaults to CMD.EXE. |
$TMPDIR
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Directory in which temporary files are located.
The CVS server uses
On Windows NT,
The |