[cvsnt] Re: Colons and Slashes. Forward ever Forward.

[Tony Hoyle]

Richard Kerry wrote:
> The slash in the repository name in the CVSROOT string must be a forward slash.  (This is using sspi connection and may therefore be Windows specific)
> This is behaviour which seems to have changed recently, an earlier version of cvsnt (not sure which - think there was a 58 in the number) didn't seem to mind, 2.5.01 does.

Not necessarily.  It must match the repository name... it's still done 
using a filename match though even though it's not strictly a path any more.

If it's not recognising the slash it's a bug.

> Also, the last colon, the one before the repository name, is optional.  This is probably a bug.

That's documented behaviour since very old versions of cvs.

Tony