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cvsserver: Note that CVS_SERVER can also be specified as method variable

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>
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Frank Lichtenheld 18 years ago committed by Junio C Hamano
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Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt

@ -57,7 +57,17 @@ looks like @@ -57,7 +57,17 @@ looks like
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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.
environment variable, you can rename git-cvsserver to cvs.

Note: Newer cvs versions (>= 1.12.11) also support specifying
CVS_SERVER directly in CVSROOT like

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cvs -d ":ext;CVS_SERVER=git-cvsserver:user@server/path/repo.git" co <HEAD_name>
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This has the advantage that it will be saved in your 'CVS/Root' files and
you don't need to worry about always setting the correct environment
variable.
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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.

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