Subject: [PATCH] cvsserver: Note that CVS_SERVER can also be specified as method variable

From: Frank Lichtenheld <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 14:33:07 +0200

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 <[email-masked]>
---
 Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt |   12 +++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
index 9f0d990..ca7579d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
@@ -57,7 +57,17 @@ looks like
 ------
 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.
-- 
1.5.2-rc3.GIT