LIMITATIONS
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-CVS clients cannot tag, branch or perform GIT merges.
+CVS clients cannot tag, branch or perform Git merges.
-'git-cvsserver' maps GIT branches to CVS modules. This is very different
+'git-cvsserver' maps Git branches to CVS modules. This is very different
from what most CVS users would expect since in CVS modules usually represent
one or more directories.
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cvs -d:pserver:someuser:somepassword <at> server/path/repo.git co <HEAD_name>
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-No special setup is needed for SSH access, other than having GIT tools
+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`.
shell is bash, .bashrc may be a reasonable alternative.
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. This also sets the
+ name to indicate what Git 'head' you want to check out. This also sets the
name of your newly checked-out directory, unless you tell it otherwise with
`-d <dir_name>`. For example, this checks out 'master' branch to the
`project-master` directory:
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'git-cvsserver' depends on DBD::SQLite.
-Copyright and Authors
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-
-This program is copyright The Open University UK - 2006.
-
-Authors:
-
-- Martyn Smith <martyn@catalyst.net.nz>
-- Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
-
-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>.
-
GIT
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Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite