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authorLibravatar Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>2021-09-15 01:09:48 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2021-09-16 20:47:48 -0700
commit4b81f690f63111586dc28e7ec103179b98c286bc (patch)
tree32df04a8640a62cbba32d624c35d9e4b102ceff2 /Documentation
parentgit-cvsserver: protect against NULL in crypt(3) (diff)
downloadtgif-4b81f690f63111586dc28e7ec103179b98c286bc.tar.xz
Documentation: cleanup git-cvsserver
Fix a few typos and alignment issues, and while at it update the example hashes to show most of the ones available in recent crypt(3). Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt17
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
index 4d13367c77..4dc57ed254 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ looks like
------
-Only anonymous access is provided by pserve by default. To commit you
+Only anonymous access is provided by pserver by default. To commit you
will have to create pserver accounts, simply add a gitcvs.authdb
setting in the config file of the repositories you want the cvsserver
to allow writes to, for example:
@@ -114,8 +114,9 @@ The format of these files is username followed by the encrypted password,
for example:
------
- myuser:$1Oyx5r9mdGZ2
- myuser:$1$BA)@$vbnMJMDym7tA32AamXrm./
+ myuser:sqkNi8zPf01HI
+ myuser:$1$9K7FzU28$VfF6EoPYCJEYcVQwATgOP/
+ myuser:$5$.NqmNH1vwfzGpV8B$znZIcumu1tNLATgV2l6e1/mY8RzhUDHMOaVOeL1cxV3
------
You can use the 'htpasswd' facility that comes with Apache to make these
files, but only with the -d option (or -B if your system suports it).
@@ -126,7 +127,7 @@ pwhash in NetBSD) and paste it in the right location.
Then provide your password via the pserver method, for example:
------
- cvs -d:pserver:someuser:somepassword <at> server/path/repo.git co <HEAD_name>
+ cvs -d:pserver:someuser:somepassword@server:/path/repo.git co <HEAD_name>
------
No special setup is needed for SSH access, other than having Git tools
in the PATH. If you have clients that do not accept the CVS_SERVER
@@ -136,7 +137,7 @@ Note: Newer CVS versions (>= 1.12.11) also support specifying
CVS_SERVER directly in CVSROOT like
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-cvs -d ":ext;CVS_SERVER=git cvsserver:user@server/path/repo.git" co <HEAD_name>
+ cvs -d ":ext;CVS_SERVER=git cvsserver:user@server/path/repo.git" co <HEAD_name>
------
This has the advantage that it will be saved in your 'CVS/Root' files and
you don't need to worry about always setting the correct environment
@@ -184,8 +185,8 @@ allowing access over SSH.
+
--
------
- export CVSROOT=:ext:user@server:/var/git/project.git
- export CVS_SERVER="git cvsserver"
+ export CVSROOT=:ext:user@server:/var/git/project.git
+ export CVS_SERVER="git cvsserver"
------
--
4. For SSH clients that will make commits, make sure their server-side
@@ -201,7 +202,7 @@ allowing access over SSH.
`project-master` directory:
+
------
- cvs co -d project-master master
+ cvs co -d project-master master
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