Shared Variables

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The info files also allow certain variables to be expanded at runtime. To expand a variable, precede it with a dollar sign (and put it in curly braces just to be safe). Here are the variables CVS knows about:

${CVSROOT} – The top of the repository.
${RCSBIN} – (Obsolete) Don't use this variable. It is only applicable in CVS Version 1.9.18 and older. Specifying it now may result in an error.
${CVSEDITOR} ${VISUAL} ${EDITOR} – These all expand to the editor that CVS is using for a log message.
${USER} – The user running CVS (on the server side).

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