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diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt index 4961f1abda..a336ae5f6f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ Print usage information and exit 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. +unless `--export-all` was given, too. DESCRIPTION @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ with CVS_SERVER (and shouldn't) as 'git-shell' understands `cvs` to mean [gitcvs] enabled=1 # optional for debugging - logfile=/path/to/logfile + logFile=/path/to/logfile ------ Note: you need to ensure each user that is going to invoke 'git-cvsserver' has @@ -254,14 +254,14 @@ Configuring database backend its documentation if changing these variables, especially about `DBI->connect()`. -gitcvs.dbname:: +gitcvs.dbName:: Database name. The exact meaning depends on the selected database driver, for SQLite this is a filename. Supports variable substitution (see below). May not contain semicolons (`;`). Default: '%Ggitcvs.%m.sqlite' -gitcvs.dbdriver:: +gitcvs.dbDriver:: Used DBI driver. You can specify any available driver for this here, but it might not work. cvsserver is tested with 'DBD::SQLite', reported to work with @@ -271,12 +271,12 @@ gitcvs.dbdriver:: Default: 'SQLite' gitcvs.dbuser:: - Database user. Only useful if setting `dbdriver`, since + Database user. Only useful if setting `dbDriver`, since SQLite has no concept of database users. Supports variable substitution (see below). -gitcvs.dbpass:: - Database password. Only useful if setting `dbdriver`, since +gitcvs.dbPass:: + Database password. Only useful if setting `dbDriver`, since SQLite has no concept of database passwords. gitcvs.dbTableNamePrefix:: @@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ All variables can also be set per access method, see <<configaccessmethod,above> Variable substitution ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -In `dbdriver` and `dbuser` you can use the following variables: +In `dbDriver` and `dbUser` you can use the following variables: %G:: Git directory name @@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ To get a checkout with the Eclipse CVS client: 3. Browse the 'modules' available. It will give you a list of the heads in the repository. You will not be able to browse the tree from there. Only the heads. -4. Pick 'HEAD' when it asks what branch/tag to check out. Untick the +4. Pick `HEAD` when it asks what branch/tag to check out. Untick the "launch commit wizard" to avoid committing the .project file. Protocol notes: If you are using anonymous access via pserver, just select that. @@ -402,27 +402,27 @@ Exports and tagging (tags and branches) are not supported at this stage. CRLF Line Ending Conversions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -By default the server leaves the '-k' mode blank for all files, +By default the server leaves the `-k` mode blank for all files, which causes the CVS client to treat them as a text files, subject to end-of-line conversion on some platforms. You can make the server use the end-of-line conversion attributes to -set the '-k' modes for files by setting the `gitcvs.usecrlfattr` +set the `-k` modes for files by setting the `gitcvs.usecrlfattr` config variable. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for more information about end-of-line conversion. Alternatively, if `gitcvs.usecrlfattr` config is not enabled or the attributes do not allow automatic detection for a filename, then -the server uses the `gitcvs.allbinary` config for the default setting. -If `gitcvs.allbinary` is set, then file not otherwise -specified will default to '-kb' mode. Otherwise the '-k' mode -is left blank. But if `gitcvs.allbinary` is set to "guess", then -the correct '-k' mode will be guessed based on the contents of +the server uses the `gitcvs.allBinary` config for the default setting. +If `gitcvs.allBinary` is set, then file not otherwise +specified will default to '-kb' mode. Otherwise the `-k` mode +is left blank. But if `gitcvs.allBinary` is set to "guess", then +the correct `-k` mode will be guessed based on the contents of the file. For best consistency with 'cvs', it is probably best to override the defaults by setting `gitcvs.usecrlfattr` to true, -and `gitcvs.allbinary` to "guess". +and `gitcvs.allBinary` to "guess". Dependencies ------------ |