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CVSCONNECT(1) CVSCONNECT(1)

NAME

cvsconnect - CVS connection minimizer

SYNOPSIS

cvsconnect cvsroot [command-to-run ...]

DESCRIPTION

CVSconnect enables you to do multiple CVS operations on single network connection. CVSconnect sets up special environment using $CVSRSH/$CVSROOT for the command line CVS client. In the environment, the command line CVS client reuses a network connection.
CVSconnect is especially designed to use with CVSsuck. And CVSconnect (or similar) will be integrated to a future version of CVSsuck. However, it is planned that CVSsuck directly connects to a cvs server without cvs command.

EXAMPLES

 cvsconnect $HOME/.cvsroot

BUGS

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The global option -z for compression cannot be used. If you use SSH via ext method, you can use compression by SSH instead.
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CVS client must be run at a time. Running two or more clients at a same time will make a trouble. (will be fixed in future release.)
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Some static variables in a CVS server may confuse you. It's a CVS bug. Report it to CVS developer :-).
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Command line CVS client must request `Root' first. Don't mind. There is no implementation which violates this assumption, however I know. At least, CVS-1.10 and CVS-1.11 should work.

NOTES

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When CVS command is failed, CVSconnect automatically re-run the command with reconnected connection when CVS command is failed. Especially the failure is caused by a long running CVS-1.10 server. Since CVS-1.10 doesn't close some file descriptors, a long running CVS server will exceed a limit of file descriptors.
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/bin/sh should be POSIX sh because this script uses ${parameter#pattern}, etc. If your /bin/sh is ancient Bourne shell, use ksh or bash.

SEE ALSO

cvs(1), cvssuck(1).

AUTHOR

This manpage is written by Piotr Roszatycki <dexter@debian.org> for Debian distribution and can be freely redistributed.
2011-08-30 Debian