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| author |  Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de> | 2007-05-27 14:33:07 +0200 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2007-05-29 00:11:22 -0700 |
| commit | 548428954aa088aecd88805aa5a8e64aee0d3e8b (patch) | |
| tree | 5c46026d942c7fc0360caa881d9daf53a699907f /Documentation | |
| parent | cvsserver: Correct inetd.conf example in asciidoc documentation (diff) | |
| download | tgif-548428954aa088aecd88805aa5a8e64aee0d3e8b.tar.xz | |
cvsserver: Note that CVS_SERVER can also be specified as method variable
Reasonably new versions of the cvs CLI client allow one to
specifiy CVS_SERVER as a method variable directly in
CVSROOT. This is way more convinient than using an
environment variable since it gets saved in CVS/Root.
Since I only discovered this by accident I guess there
might be others out there that learnt CVS on the 1.11
series (or even earlier) and profit from such a note
about cvs improvements in the last couple years.
Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt index 9f0d990804..ca7579d9f5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt @@ -57,7 +57,17 @@ looks like ------ 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 -env variable, you can rename git-cvsserver to cvs. +environment variable, you can rename git-cvsserver to cvs. + +Note: Newer cvs versions (>= 1.12.11) also support specifying +CVS_SERVER directly in CVSROOT like + +------ +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 +variable. -- 2. For each repo that you want accessible from CVS you need to edit config in the repo and add the following section. |