From e0b415773b3ca8e90150d127abdf13a0613d1fc6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kjell Wooding <kjell@cvs.openbsd.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 14:52:45 +0000
Subject: Document CVSREADONLYFS and -R. ok henning@, tholo@

---
 gnu/usr.bin/cvs/man/cvs.1 | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

(limited to 'gnu/usr.bin/cvs')

diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/man/cvs.1 b/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/man/cvs.1
index f7f7f2f3629..2ad5a36b292 100644
--- a/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/man/cvs.1
+++ b/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/man/cvs.1
@@ -157,6 +157,13 @@ command name,
 .` "cvs \-H"
 displays a summary of all the commands available.
 .TP
+.B \-R
+Allows
+.B cvs
+to run properly without write access to its log file. See also the
+.SM CVSREADONLYFS
+environment variable.
+.TP
 .B \-Q
 Causes the command to be
 .I really
@@ -2065,6 +2072,12 @@ If neither is set, a system-dependent default editor (e.g.,
 .BR vi )
 is used.
 .TP
+.SM CVSREADONLYFS
+Setting this variable allows
+.B cvs
+to run properly without write access to its log file. This is especially
+useful when mounting a read-only source tree via NFS.
+.TP
 .SM CVS_IGNORE_REMOTE_ROOT
 If this variable is set then
 .B cvs
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