[Xastir-dev] Developer CVS

[Tom Russo]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 03:20:59PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <curt.we7u at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2012, Tom Russo wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> $ rpm -qa | grep cvs
> cvs-1.12.12-169.4.1.x86_64
> 
> I tried it earlier by replacing ":ext:" with ":extssh:" in all the CVS/Root files.  Perhaps I should try a full checkout instead as I might have missed somewhere else it is needed.
> 
> Nope:
> 
> $ cvs -d :extssh:we7u at xastir.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/xastir checkout -d FOOBIE xastir
> cvs checkout: Unknown method (`extssh') in CVSROOT.
> cvs [checkout aborted]: Bad CVSROOT: `:extssh:we7u at xastir.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/xastir'.

Huh.  Oh, well.

Strange that your home system defaults to ssh and your work system needs you
to specify CVS_RSH, though.

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