Mercurial > emacs
changeset 54055:6a13a0f9d22b
Add info about ssh/cvs related problems and work-around.
| author | Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> |
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| date | Tue, 17 Feb 2004 23:46:53 +0000 |
| parents | c09f1e11d806 |
| children | ef73d23d7cb5 |
| files | INSTALL.CVS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/INSTALL.CVS Tue Feb 17 21:36:00 2004 +0000 +++ b/INSTALL.CVS Tue Feb 17 23:46:53 2004 +0000 @@ -48,3 +48,29 @@ 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