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diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt index e5005f02f9..258a62f7e9 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt @@ -7,10 +7,53 @@ git-cvsserver - A CVS server emulator for git SYNOPSIS -------- + +SSH: + [verse] export CVS_SERVER=git-cvsserver 'cvs' -d :ext:user@server/path/repo.git co <HEAD_name> +pserver (/etc/inetd.conf): + +[verse] +cvspserver stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/bin/git-cvsserver git-cvsserver pserver + +Usage: + +[verse] +'git-cvsserver' [options] [pserver|server] [<directory> ...] + +OPTIONS +------- + +All these options obviously only make sense if enforced by the server side. +They have been implemented to resemble the gitlink:git-daemon[1] options as +closely as possible. + +--base-path <path>:: +Prepend 'path' to requested CVSROOT + +--strict-paths:: +Don't allow recursing into subdirectories + +--export-all:: +Don't check for `gitcvs.enabled` in config. You also have to specify a list +of allowed directories (see below) if you want to use this option. + +--version, -V:: +Print version information and exit + +--help, -h, -H:: +Print usage information and exit + +<directory>:: +You can specify a list of allowed directories. If no directories +are given, all are allowed. This is an additional restriction, gitcvs +access still needs to be enabled by the `gitcvs.enabled` config option +unless '--export-all' was given, too. + + DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -59,7 +102,7 @@ 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 environment variable, you can rename git-cvsserver to cvs. -Note: Newer cvs versions (>= 1.12.11) also support specifying +Note: Newer CVS versions (>= 1.12.11) also support specifying CVS_SERVER directly in CVSROOT like ------ |