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[PATCH/RFC] cvsserver: Make configuration way more flexible

From
Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Date
Mar 19, 2007, 15:55 UTC
Message-ID
<11743197614111-git-send-email-frank@lichtenheld.de>
Hi.

This patch series started with the thought that it is really cumbersome to use the pserver access via git-cvsserver without giving the nobody user write access to the .git directory itself (especially since SQLite seems to insist on creating temporary files in the same directory as the database itself on writes).

This problem itself is easily fixable with an one-line patch to git-cvsserver that uses a gitcvs.dbdir configuration variable.

I tried to abstract the problem a bit more though and created means to configure all aspects of the database backend in a very flexible manner. I would glad about comments on wether I made my solution overly complex on the way...

Most of the changes are tested intensively with test repositories, exceptions are noted in the individual patches. More testing welcome of course.

The documentation updates are not yet complete.
Gruesse,
	Frank Lichtenheld
 Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt |   12 ++++++
 git-cvsserver.perl              |   72 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 2 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
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Message 1 of 23 in “cvsserver: Make configuration way more flexible”
  1. cvsserver: Make configuration way more flexibleFrank Lichtenheld, Mar 19, 2007
  2. 1/5 cvsserver: Introduce new state variable 'method'Frank Lichtenheld, Mar 19, 2007
  3. 2/5 cvsserver: Handle three part keys in git config correctlyFrank Lichtenheld, Mar 19, 2007
  4. 3/5 cvsserver: Allow to override the configuration per access methodFrank Lichtenheld, Mar 19, 2007
  5. 4/5 cvsserver: Make the database backend configurableFrank Lichtenheld, Mar 19, 2007
  6. Martin LanghoffMar 19, 2007
  7. Frank LichtenheldMar 23, 2007
  8. Frank LichtenheldMar 23, 2007
  9. 5/5 cvsserver: Abort if connect to database failsFrank Lichtenheld, Mar 19, 2007
  10. cvsserver: Use DBI->table_info instead of DBI->tablesFrank Lichtenheld, Mar 31, 2007
  11. Frank LichtenheldMar 31, 2007
  12. 0/3 cvsserver: small corrections and bring documentation up to speedFrank Lichtenheld, Apr 7, 2007
  13. 1/3 cvsserver: small corrections to asciidoc documentationFrank Lichtenheld, Apr 7, 2007
  14. 2/3 cvsserver: Corrections to the database backend configurationFrank Lichtenheld, Apr 7, 2007
  15. 3/3 cvsserver: Add asciidoc documentation for new database backend configurationFrank Lichtenheld, Apr 7, 2007
  16. Junio C HamanoApr 8, 2007
  17. Frank LichtenheldApr 11, 2007
  18. cvsserver: Add asciidoc documentation for new database backend configurationFrank Lichtenheld, Apr 12, 2007
  19. Jakub NarebskiApr 13, 2007
  20. config.txt: Add gitcvs.db* variablesFrank Lichtenheld, Apr 13, 2007
  21. cvsserver: Document the GIT branches -> CVS modules mapping more prominentlyFrank Lichtenheld, Apr 12, 2007
  22. Junio C HamanoApr 12, 2007
  23. Frank LichtenheldApr 12, 2007

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