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 <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
While the given example worked, it made us look rather
incompetent. Give the correct reason why one needs the
more complex syntax and change the example to reflect
that.
Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
* fl/cvsserver:
config.txt: Add gitcvs.db* variables
cvsserver: Document the GIT branches -> CVS modules mapping more prominently
cvsserver: Reword documentation on necessity of write access
cvsserver: Allow to "add" a removed file
cvsserver: Add asciidoc documentation for new database backend configuration
cvsserver: Corrections to the database backend configuration
cvsserver: Use DBI->table_info instead of DBI->tables
cvsserver: Abort if connect to database fails
cvsserver: Make the database backend configurable
cvsserver: Allow to override the configuration per access method
cvsserver: Handle three part keys in git config correctly
cvsserver: Introduce new state variable 'method'
Conflicts:
Documentation/config.txt
Add a note about the branches -> modules mapping to LIMITATIONS because
I really think it should be noted there and not just at the end of
the installation step-by-step HOWTO.
I used "git branches" there and changed "heads" to "branches" in
my section about database configuration. I'm reluctant to replace
all occourences of "head" with "branch" though because you always
have to say "git branch" because CVS also has the concept of
branches. You can say "head" though, because there is no such
concept in CVS. In all the existing occourences of head other than
the one I changed I think "head" flows better in the text.
Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Reworded the section about git-cvsserver needing to update the
database.
Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Documents the new configuration variables and the variable
substitution mechanism.
Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Fix a typo: s/Not/Note/
Some formating fixes: Use ` ` syntax for all filenames and
' ' syntax for all commandline switches.
Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
The git-cvsserver documentation claims that the server will set
-k modes if appropriate which is not really the case. On the other
hand the available gitcvs.allbinary variable is not documented at
all. Fix both these issues by rewording the related paragraph.
Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Allow to override the gitcvs.enabled and gitcvs.logfile configuration
variables for each access method (i.e. "ext" or "pserver") in the
form gitcvs.<method>.<var>
Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Format some lists really as lists. Improves both html and man
output.
Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
No content change here.
html output improved. man output changed.
Signed-off-by: Francis Daly <francis@daoine.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
... and stripped trailing whitespace to appease the Gods...
Signed-off-by: Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
git-cvsserver is highly functional. However, not all methods are implemented,
and for those methods that are implemented, not all switches are implemented.
All the common read operations are implemented, and add/remove/commit are
supported.
Testing has been done using both the CLI CVS client, and the Eclipse CVS
plugin. Most functionality works fine with both of these clients.
Currently git-cvsserver only works over SSH connections, see the
Documentation for more details on how to configure your client. It
does not support pserver for anonymous access but it should not be
hard to implement. Anonymous access will need tighter input validation.
In our very informal tests, it seems to be significantly faster than a real
CVS server.
This utility depends on a version of git-cvsannotate that supports -S and on
DBD::SQLite.
Licensed under GPLv2. Copyright The Open University UK.
Authors: Martyn Smith <martyn@catalyst.net.nz>
Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
