Using TortoiseCVS when CVSROOT contains a port number

Question

Hi there, been bashing my head against my desk for hours trying to work this one out.

I want to use TortoiseCVS to view a checkout which was done by eclipse CVS. Reason being is that I can plugin better merge tools to TortoiseCVS than what eclipse can provide.

Our CVSROOT specified in ./CVS/Root file of every directory looks something like:

:ext:username@hostname:7222/path/to/repo

When running TortoiseCVS I get the error:

"cvs update: bad CVSROOT - Cannot specify port: :ext:username@hostname:7222/path/to/repo"

Reading on the forums it appears that CVSNT cannot handle ports in the CVSROOT. I'm wondering if I can get around this somehow. Specify an overriding CVSROOT for my project or something.

Any advice would be appreciated.