Re: [PATCH/resend] CVS Server: Support reading base and roots from environment

[Phil Miller <mille121@illinois.edu>]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 07:41, Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> wrote:
> Junio, could you tell us what happened to this thread?
>
> Phil Miller's patch to help gitosis installation.  No response from
> git-cvsserver users.

I never resent with modifications as Junio requested. I've been busy
with some end-of-year close-out stuff, and actually wanted to
dramatically simplify part of the patch before the resend. I'll do
that shortly.

Since Gitosis wants to do repository-level access control before
running any Git commands, I figured out a CVSROOT format that would
let it do this. Given that, there's only one repository that an
invocation of git-cvsserver should be allowed to access, and so the
issue of "list separator" and so forth is moot. The resultant CVS
command line looks something like

cvs -d ":ext;CVS_SERVER=cvs
'/path/to/module':charmgit/path/to/module.git" co -d module

Note that I have had to modify Gitosis to make this, and various other
things, work. I had wanted to clean up my work before announcing it,
but if it would help you now, it is publicly available from github
now:

git://github.com/PhilMiller/gitosis.git

The documentation hasn't been updated, but the recent history makes as
least some usage clear. I'll send more details in a follow-up.

Phil