[Xastir-dev] Developer CVS

[Tom Russo]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 02:19:29PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <curt.we7u at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2012, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 28 Sep 2012, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 28 Sep 2012, Tom Russo wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Also, looking at the cvs source, if you use ":extssh:" instead of ":ext:" 
> >>> with
> >>> a CVS build that has rsh enabled by default, it'll use ssh (or the 
> >>> contents
> >>> of the CVS_SSH variable if set) rather than looking at the CVS_RSH 
> >>> variable.
> >> 
> >> Good to know!  I may tweak my CVS/Root files so I don't have to worry about 
> >> it in the future.
> >
> > Doesn't work here.  Changed back to :ext:
> 
> Eclipse proprietary:
> 
> "By default Eclipse uses its proprietary extssh method to connect to the repository, which command line CVS does not support."
> 
> I'm using command-line CVS.

I took the :extssh: thing from the source code for CVS's "NEWS" file.

What version of CVS you got?  1.11.22.1 here.

cvs -d :extssh:tvrusso at xastir.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/xastir checkout -d FOOBIE xastir

did a checkout of Xastir into the FOOBIE directory when I issued it from 
command line.

-- 
Tom Russo    KM5VY   SAR502   DM64ux          http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
Tijeras, NM  QRPL#1592 K2#398  SOC#236        http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM
"And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is
 one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh,
 oooh, the sky is the limit!"  --- The Tick