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Re: [PATCH 4/5] cvsserver: Make the database backend configurable

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Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 19, 2007, 19:47 UTC
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On 3/20/07, Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de> wrote:
> Make all the different parts of the database backend connection
> configurable. This adds the following string configuration variables:

Nice. I guess the hard part of this is going to be creating DB schemas that are reasonably portable. The SQL we use is as vanilla as it gets ;-)

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> Both dbname and dbuser support dynamic variable substitution where
> the available variables are:
> %m -- the CVS 'module' (i.e. GIT 'head') worked on
> %a -- CVS access method used (i.e. 'ext' or 'pserver')
> %u -- User name of the user invoking git-cvsserver
> %G -- .git directory name
> %g -- .git directory name, mangled to be used in a filename,
>       currently this substitutes all chars except for [\w.-]
>       with '_'
It's missing from the POD though ;-)

Good to see patches coming to cvsserver -- I haven't been able to do much on it lately, and my pet projects are pretty hard. If anyone cares, they are:

 - mimic CVS branch support
 - allow skewing version numbers to match an existing repo

with those 2 in place, we'd have a means of applying a "vampire tap" to an existing cvs server and take over without anyone noticing. But tehy are both hard, hard hard.

cheers.
martin
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Message 6 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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