[PRL] Setting up CVS repository for remote access

[Galen Williamson]

I relied on this capability heavily during my dissertation...

There's a CCIS howto for remotely accessing a CVS repository, but the
short of it is to use CVS_RSH=ssh, and a CVSROOT like

:ext:wand at denali.ccs.neu.edu:/home/wand/path-to-cvsroot

This works great with cygwin, but I haven't tried wincvs.

Shared access would require the other user have a CCIS unix account and
read/write access to your CVS directories and files.

--Galen.

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Mitchell Wand wrote:

> I'm trying to set up a CVS repository that I can access remotely.
>
> For example, I have a repository for the new edition of my book that is
> currently set up as follows:
>
> workingcopy/CVS/Root       is   /home/wand/.cvsroot
> workingcopy/CVS/Repository is   eopl3
>
> which puts the repository at /home/wand/.cvsroot/eopl3 .
>
> This fine when I'm on campus, but how can I set things up so that I can
> checkout and commit remotely, eg from my laptop somewhere in Indiana?
>
> I can mount my home directory on my laptop via Webdrive as W:/ , but
> that doesn't help my poor cygwin cvs client (or wincvs), which is misled
> by the CVS/Root entry.
>
> What's the Right way of doing this?
>
> I want to stick with CVS for the moment, since that's what Emacs can
> handle without any effort on my part.
>
> I'd also like to have shared access, so that my 1 collaborator on this
> project can commit files, too., but I'd like to know the answer even in
> the absence of shared access.
>
> If this is too complicated for email, drop by-- I'll be here the rest of
> the day today.
>
> --Mitch
>