LIMITATIONS
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-Currently cvsserver works over SSH connections for read/write clients, and
-over pserver for anonymous CVS access.
-
CVS clients cannot tag, branch or perform GIT merges.
'git-cvsserver' maps GIT branches to CVS modules. This is very different
INSTALLATION
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-1. If you are going to offer anonymous CVS access via pserver, add a line in
+1. If you are going to offer CVS access via pserver, add a line in
/etc/inetd.conf like
+
--
cvspserver stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/bin/git-cvsserver git-cvsserver pserver
------
+
+Only anonymous access is provided by pserve by default. To commit you
+will have to create pserver accounts, simply add a gitcvs.authdb
+setting in the config file of the repositories you want the cvsserver
+to allow writes to, for example:
+
+------
+
+ [gitcvs]
+ authdb = /etc/cvsserver/passwd
+
+------
+The format of these files is username followed by the crypted password,
+for example:
+
+------
+ myuser:$1Oyx5r9mdGZ2
+ myuser:$1$BA)@$vbnMJMDym7tA32AamXrm./
+------
+You can use the 'htpasswd' facility that comes with Apache to make these
+files, but Apache's MD5 crypt method differs from the one used by most C
+library's crypt() function, so don't use the -m option.
+
+Alternatively you can produce the password with perl's crypt() operator:
+-----
+ perl -e 'my ($user, $pass) = @ARGV; printf "%s:%s\n", $user, crypt($user, $pass)' $USER password
+-----
+
+Then provide your password via the pserver method, for example:
+------
+ cvs -d:pserver:someuser:somepassword <at> server/path/repo.git co <HEAD_name>
+------
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
environment variable, you can rename 'git-cvsserver' to `cvs`.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
By default the server leaves the '-k' mode blank for all files,
-which causes the cvs client to treat them as a text files, subject
-to crlf conversion on some platforms.
+which causes the CVS client to treat them as a text files, subject
+to end-of-line conversion on some platforms.
You can make the server use the end-of-line conversion attributes to
set the '-k' modes for files by setting the `gitcvs.usecrlfattr`
Authors:
- Martyn Smith <martyn@catalyst.net.nz>
-- Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
+- Martin Langhoff <martin@laptop.org>
with ideas and patches from participants of the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
Documentation
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-Documentation by Martyn Smith <martyn@catalyst.net.nz>, Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>, and Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>.
+Documentation by Martyn Smith <martyn@catalyst.net.nz>, Martin Langhoff <martin@laptop.org>, and Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>.
GIT
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