Here is a little patch to allow git-cvsserver to support fetching from branches with slashes in their names like:
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>From 1d22e18f46a82eab3fe6d467b2b87fe8203ebacc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ron Parker <ron.parker@mobot.org> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:48:31 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Support slashes in branches in git-cvsserver
--- git-cvsserver.perl | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-cvsserver.perl b/git-cvsserver.perl index 2a8447e..418c821 100755 --- a/git-cvsserver.perl +++ b/git-cvsserver.perl @@ -2087,7 +2087,9 @@ sub new die "Database dir '$self->{dbdir}' isn't a directory" unless ( defined($self->{dbdir}) and -d $self->{dbdir} ); $self->{module} = $module; - $self->{file} = $self->{dbdir} . "/gitcvs.$module.sqlite"; + my $mod = $module; + $mod =~ s/\//./g; + $self->{file} = $self->{dbdir} . "/gitcvs.$mod.sqlite"; $self->{git_path} = $config . "/";
-- 1.4.4.2.g8336