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| author | Francis Daly <francis@daoine.org> | 2006-06-07 23:28:34 +0100 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2006-06-07 16:32:50 -0700 |
| commit | 0fc8573d4b039f54f3c8a70f756cfe63f8129f7b (patch) | |
| tree | 311463f941abb0b9a3478115a53080dd9dbc0f70 /Documentation | |
| parent | b8936cf0605fbcc01cf9f0426e1e078d26f4bde1 (diff) | |
| download | git-0fc8573d4b039f54f3c8a70f756cfe63f8129f7b.tar.gz | |
git-cvsserver asciidoc formatting tweaks
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt | 49 |
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt index 952635d809..e328db3797 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt @@ -36,49 +36,62 @@ INSTALLATION 1. If you are going to offer anonymous CVS access via pserver, add a line in /etc/inetd.conf like - ++ +-- +------ cvspserver stream tcp nowait nobody git-cvsserver pserver - Note: In some cases, you need to pass the 'pserver' argument twice for - git-cvsserver to see it. So the line would look like +------ +Note: In some cases, you need to pass the 'pserver' argument twice for +git-cvsserver to see it. So the line would look like +------ cvspserver stream tcp nowait nobody git-cvsserver pserver pserver - 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. - +------ +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. +-- 2. For each repo that you want accessible from CVS you need to edit config in the repo and add the following section. - ++ +-- +------ [gitcvs] enabled=1 # optional for debugging logfile=/path/to/logfile - Note: you need to ensure each user that is going to invoke git-cvsserver has - write access to the log file and to the git repository. When offering anon - access via pserver, this means that the nobody user should have write access - to at least the sqlite database at the root of the repository. - +------ +Note: you need to ensure each user that is going to invoke git-cvsserver has +write access to the log file and to the git repository. When offering anon +access via pserver, this means that the nobody user should have write access +to at least the sqlite database at the root of the repository. +-- 3. On the client machine you need to set the following variables. CVSROOT should be set as per normal, but the directory should point at the appropriate git repo. For example: ++ +-- +For SSH access, CVS_SERVER should be set to git-cvsserver - For SSH access, CVS_SERVER should be set to git-cvsserver - - Example: +Example: +------ export CVSROOT=:ext:user@server:/var/git/project.git export CVS_SERVER=git-cvsserver - +------ +-- 4. For SSH clients that will make commits, make sure their .bashrc file sets the GIT_AUTHOR and GIT_COMMITTER variables. 5. Clients should now be able to check out the project. Use the CVS 'module' name to indicate what GIT 'head' you want to check out. Example: - ++ +------ cvs co -d project-master master +------ Eclipse CVS Client Notes ------------------------ |