Merge branch 'maint'

[git.git] / Documentation / git-cvsserver.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
index d22844ba49859b9a189317744e0f14431267e60a..258a62f7e9e91249b42b85df2880b4b2e07de11c 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
@@ -7,10 +7,53 @@ git-cvsserver - A CVS server emulator for git
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
+
+SSH:
+
 [verse]
 export CVS_SERVER=git-cvsserver
 'cvs' -d :ext:user@server/path/repo.git co <HEAD_name>
 
+pserver (/etc/inetd.conf):
+
+[verse]
+cvspserver stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/bin/git-cvsserver git-cvsserver pserver
+
+Usage:
+
+[verse]
+'git-cvsserver' [options] [pserver|server] [<directory> ...]
+
+OPTIONS
+-------
+
+All these options obviously only make sense if enforced by the server side.
+They have been implemented to resemble the gitlink:git-daemon[1] options as
+closely as possible.
+
+--base-path <path>::
+Prepend 'path' to requested CVSROOT
+
+--strict-paths::
+Don't allow recursing into subdirectories
+
+--export-all::
+Don't check for `gitcvs.enabled` in config. You also have to specify a list
+of allowed directories (see below) if you want to use this option.
+
+--version, -V::
+Print version information and exit
+
+--help, -h, -H::
+Print usage information and exit
+
+<directory>::
+You can specify a list of allowed directories. If no directories
+are given, all are allowed. This is an additional restriction, gitcvs
+access still needs to be enabled by the `gitcvs.enabled` config option
+unless '--export-all' was given, too.
+
+
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
 
@@ -46,16 +89,28 @@ INSTALLATION
    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: Some inetd servers let you specify the name of the executable
+independently of the value of argv[0] (i.e. the name the program assumes
+it was executed with). In this case the correct line in /etc/inetd.conf
+looks like
 
 ------
-   cvspserver stream tcp nowait nobody git-cvsserver pserver pserver
+   cvspserver stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/bin/git-cvsserver git-cvsserver 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.
+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
+
+------
+cvs -d ":ext;CVS_SERVER=git-cvsserver:user@server/path/repo.git" co <HEAD_name>
+------
+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.
 --
 2. For each repo that you want accessible from CVS you need to edit config in
    the repo and add the following section.
@@ -74,7 +129,7 @@ write access to the log file and to the database (see
 SSH, the users of course also need write access to the git repository itself.
 
 [[configaccessmethod]]
-All configuration variables can also be overriden for a specific method of
+All configuration variables can also be overridden for a specific method of
 access. Valid method names are "ext" (for SSH access) and "pserver". The
 following example configuration would disable pserver access while still
 allowing access over SSH.
@@ -116,7 +171,7 @@ Database Backend
 
 git-cvsserver uses one database per git head (i.e. CVS module) to
 store information about the repository for faster access. The
-database doesn't contain any persitent data and can be completly
+database doesn't contain any persistent data and can be completely
 regenerated from the git repository at any time. The database
 needs to be updated (i.e. written to) after every commit.