[m-dev.] for review: make anonymous remote CVS access available.

[Fergus Henderson]

On 09-Aug-2000, Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> +++ include/contributions.inc	2000/08/09 02:21:24
> @@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
>  <H2>Contributed Programs and Libraries</H2>
>  
> +<H3>Developer Documentation</H3>
> +There is some developer documentation at the Mercury
> +

That is incomple
;-)

> +	<li> You will have read-only access to the repository.  If you
> +	want to commit something you will need to get someone with
> +	read-write access to do it for you.  If you send you patch to
> +	the mercury-developers mailing list you should be able to get
> +	this done.

s/you patch/your patch/

> +	<li> You almost certainly want to add the following lines to
> +	your .cvsrc (in your home directory).
> +
> +<pre>
> +	cvs -z6
> +	diff -u -N
> +	update -Pd
> +</pre>
> +
> +	<li> This turns on compression in client/server transfers, uses
> +	the preferred Mercury diff format (unified diff with new files
> +	shown as diffs), prunes empty directories and picks up new
> +	directories.

Last time I checked, there were problems with enabling `-N' by default,
since `cvs diff -N' crashed if a file had been deleted.

>  	<li> Generate a password using standard UNIX /etc/passwd style
> -	  passwords. *Do not* use your normal password. A good way to
> +	  passwords.  *Do not* use your normal password.  A good way to
>  	  do this is change your password to something, copy the line
> -	  from /etc/password, then change it back. Only the username and
> +	  from /etc/password, then change it back.  If you have htpasswd

s/password/passwd/

> +	<li> Access via Windows works just fine.  Most firewalls are
> +	  setup to allow CVS access through.  You can get a free
> +	  binary (and source) CVS for Windows from 
> +	  <a href="http://www.cyclic.com/">www.cyclic.com</a>.
> +	  Also there is a produce called 
> +	  <a href="http://www.wincvs.com/">WinCVS</a> that should
> +	  work (although we haven't tried it ourselves).

s/produce/product/

Otherwise, that looks fine.

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