Um, why? The only time you need to tell cvs which repo to use is when you don't have a ./CVS directory, e.g. when doing cvs import or cvs checkout. I never have the CVSROOT environment variable set: I just rely on ./CVS/Root and very occasional use of cvs -d.

You do if you're dealing with multiple CVS servers tho; thus I have a directory called ~/work/wcmc where all of my work stuff is checked out into and ~/work/bpfh where all of my stuff gets checked out into.

Whilst some of this info does get put into the CVS/Root file, things like a specific command name required for me to ssh into work (i.e. setting CVS_RSH) don't work.

The script originally came from WorldCom where every project had its own CVS repository thanks to the use of SourceForge and access was done via ssh