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(cvs.info)Connecting via fork

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Connecting with fork
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   This access method allows you to connect to a repository on your
local disk via the remote protocol.  In other words it does pretty much
the same thing as `:local:', but various quirks, bugs and the like are
those of the remote CVS rather than the local CVS.

   For day-to-day operations you might prefer either `:local:' or
`:fork:', depending on your preferences.  Of course `:fork:' comes in
particularly handy in testing or debugging `cvs' and the remote
protocol.  Specifically, we avoid all of the network-related
setup/configuration, timeouts, and authentication inherent in the other
remote access methods but still create a connection which uses the
remote protocol.

   To connect using the `fork' method, use `:fork:' and the pathname to
your local repository.  For example:

     cvs -d :fork:/usr/local/cvsroot checkout foo

   As with `:ext:', the server is called `cvs' by default, or the value
of the `CVS_SERVER' environment variable.