From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:47:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] cvsserver: Make the database backend configurable
Message-ID: <46a038f90703191247y6b70c272s2473ab28acd63682@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <11743197611364-git-send-email-frank@lichtenheld.de>

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
;-)

> 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