From: Frank Lichtenheld Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 12:33:07 GMT Subject: [PATCH] cvsserver: Note that CVS_SERVER can also be specified as method variable Message-ID: <1180269200838-git-send-email-frank@lichtenheld.de> In-Reply-To: <1180269190126-git-send-email-frank@lichtenheld.de> 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 --- 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 +------ +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. -- 1.5.2-rc3.GIT