[PATCH] cvsserver: Note that CVS_SERVER can also be specified as method variable
From: Frank Lichtenheld <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:43:13
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
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 <redacted> --- 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 9f0d990..ca7579d 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.
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1.5.2-rc3.GIT