Re: Connecting to a Unix CVS repository with Tortoise CVS

Robert,

> Subject: [TortoiseCVS] Connecting to a Unix CVS repository 
> with Tortoise CVS

Firstly: if  your Unix CVS server is NOT CVSNT then you will miss out on
many features of TortoiseCVS, including merge tracking.  CVSNT (of
course) runs on most unix and linux servers.  

TortoiseCVS is a 'gui' your questions are really about the CVSNT client
used by TortoiseCVS to connect to your server (well also about how you
configure that client using TortoiseCVS - so both really...).


> export CVS_RSH=ssh
> export CVSROOT=:ext:foobar:/usr/local/cvsroot

The CVSNT client used by TortoiseCVS has an inbuild SSH protocol - so an
ssh wrapper is not required, ie:

CVSROOT=:ssh:user@foobar:/usr/local/cvsroot
Or
CVSROOT=:ssh:putty-session-name:/usr/local/cvsroot


> export CVS_SERVER=/usr/local/bin/cvs

Yes - set this environment variable on the users PC in the 'system'
environment and then reboot and all should work.

> information for the CVS_SERVER variable.  If I change the protocol
> from ext to ssh and enter CVS_SERVER=/usr/local/bin/cvs for protocol
> parameters, I get a different error:

That is not a valid protocol parameter, instead just use 'server'.

If the version of TortoiseCVS you are using has our mods then on the
TortoiseCVS Preferences 'tools' page there should simply be a parameter
for 'SSH cvs server' wher eyou can type in /usr/local/bin/cvs (the
default is just 'cvs').

> <quote>
> In C:\DOCUME~1\rcitek\LOCALS~1\Temp\: "C:\Program Files\CVSNT\cvs.exe"
> -q -Q co -c
> CVSROOT=:ssh;CVS_SERVER=/usr/local/bin/cvs:rcitek@foobar:/usr/
> local/cvsroot
> 
> cvs checkout: Bad CVSROOT: Unknown keyword 'CVS_SERVER'
> cvs [checkout aborted]: Bad CVSROOT.

Yes the error means what it says, this is what  you want:
:ssh;server=/usr/local/bin/cvs:rcitek@foobar:/usr/local/cvsroot


Regards,


Arthur Barrett

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