you don't need to worry about always setting the correct environment
variable. SSH users restricted to 'git-shell' don't need to override the default
with CVS_SERVER (and shouldn't) as 'git-shell' understands `cvs` to mean
-'git-cvsserver' and pretends that the other end runs the real `cvs` better.
+'git-cvsserver' and pretends that the other end runs the real 'cvs' better.
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2. For each repo that you want accessible from CVS you need to edit config in
the repo and add the following section.
<<dbbackend,Database Backend>>. If you want to offer write access over
SSH, the users of course also need write access to the git repository itself.
+You also need to ensure that each repository is "bare" (without a git index
+file) for `cvs commit` to work. See linkgit:gitcvs-migration[7].
+
[[configaccessmethod]]
All configuration variables can also be overridden for a specific method of
access. Valid method names are "ext" (for SSH access) and "pserver". The
the correct '-k' mode will be guessed based on the contents of
the file.
-For best consistency with `cvs`, it is probably best to override the
+For best consistency with 'cvs', it is probably best to override the
defaults by setting `gitcvs.usecrlfattr` to true,
and `gitcvs.allbinary` to "guess".