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Re: [PATCH/resend] CVS Server: Support reading base and roots from environment

From
Phil Miller <mille121@illinois.edu>
Date
Dec 30, 2009, 17:12 UTC
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<81f018ac0912300912g25887523g1bdf29fd6e31d011@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 07:41, Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> wrote:
> Junio, could you tell us what happened to this thread?
>
> Phil Miller's patch to help gitosis installation.  No response from
> git-cvsserver users.

I never resent with modifications as Junio requested. I've been busy with some end-of-year close-out stuff, and actually wanted to dramatically simplify part of the patch before the resend. I'll do that shortly.

Since Gitosis wants to do repository-level access control before running any Git commands, I figured out a CVSROOT format that would let it do this. Given that, there's only one repository that an invocation of git-cvsserver should be allowed to access, and so the issue of "list separator" and so forth is moot. The resultant CVS command line looks something like

cvs -d ":ext;CVS_SERVER=cvs '/path/to/module':charmgit/path/to/module.git" co -d module

Note that I have had to modify Gitosis to make this, and various other things, work. I had wanted to clean up my work before announcing it, but if it would help you now, it is publicly available from github now:

git://github.com/PhilMiller/gitosis.git

The documentation hasn't been updated, but the recent history makes as least some usage clear. I'll send more details in a follow-up.

Phil
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  1. CVS Server: Support reading base and roots from environmentPhil Miller, Nov 20, 2009
  2. Junio C HamanoNov 20, 2009
  3. Nanako ShiraishiDec 30, 2009
  4. Phil MillerDec 30, 2009
  5. Junio C HamanoDec 30, 2009
  6. Phil MillerDec 30, 2009
  7. CVS Server: Support reading base and roots from environmentPhil Miller, Dec 30, 2009

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