From 548428954aa088aecd88805aa5a8e64aee0d3e8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frank Lichtenheld Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 14:33:07 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] cvsserver: Note that CVS_SERVER can also be specified as method variable 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 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt index 9f0d990804..ca7579d9f5 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. -- 2.11.4.GIT