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According to Larry Hall (Cygwin) on 9/17/2009 12:53 PM:
> While I'm not suggesting that people should reassign their "cygdrive"
> prefix
> to "/", I think the problem you saw in your case is a result of having set
> CVS up when your setting was still "cygdrive" and the disconnect you get
> now that it isn't.  So I believe you'd see the same problem no matter what
> you changed "cygdrive" to.  Obviously, as you point out, symbolic links are
> a good alternative in this case.

Including 'ln -s / /cygdrive' after changing your mount point, so that /c
and /cygdrive/c still refer to the same place.

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Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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