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diff --git a/INSTALL.CVS b/INSTALL.CVS index 3acb070de3b..27e035146bb 100644 --- a/INSTALL.CVS +++ b/INSTALL.CVS @@ -48,3 +48,29 @@ Questions, requests, and bug reports about the CVS versions of Emacs should be sent to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org rather than gnu.emacs.help or gnu.emacs.bug. Ideally, use M-x report-emacs-bug RET which will send it to the proper place. + + +Note on using SSH to access the CVS repository from inside emacs +---------------------------------------------------------------- + +Write access to the CVS repository requires using SSH v2. + +If you execute cvs commands inside emacs, specifically if you use +pcl-cvs, output from CVS may be lost due to a problem in the +interface between ssh, cvs, and emacs. Corrupted checkins are +also been reported to have happened. + +To fix the problem, save the following script into a file, make it +executable, and set CVS_RSH to the file name of the script: + +#!/bin/bash +exec 2> >(exec cat >&2 2>/dev/null) +exec ssh "$@" + +This may be combined with the following entry in ~/.ssh/config to +simplify accessing the CVS repository: + +Host subversions.gnu.org + Protocol 2 + ForwardX11 no + User YOUR_USERID |