From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Does pclcvs support ssh protocol ? Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:19:19 +1100 Organization: Rapt Technologies Message-ID: <87d4qpdbzc.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: <20080221.063610.71130233.devel@pollock-nageoire.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203644446 1458 80.91.229.12 (22 Feb 2008 01:40:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:40:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 22 02:41:11 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JSMuS-0000Dy-6z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:41:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JSMtx-00062v-0B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:40:37 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!colt.net!feeder.news-service.com!sn-xt-ams-06!sn-xt-ams-05!sn-post-ams-01!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7elA5Rsusi4HT0gfio5n366OsLM= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 50 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:156376 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:51746 Archived-At: Michael Hoffman writes: > Pierre Lorenzon wrote: > >> I am very surprised that none seems to have an answer to this >> so simple question : "does pclcvs support ssh protocol ?" Using >> cvs client side, if you set the environment variable CVS_RSH to >> ssh, cvs will use ssh to communicate with the server. Does >> pclcvs support this feature ? > > It's just a front-end to CVS, so it doesn't affect whether your local CVS > installation supports ssh or not. > > Does it work under VC? What error messages do you get? > Not sure if its relevant or not, but the INSTALL file for CVS emacs has the following note - ,---- | 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 libc. Corrupted checkins are | also known 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 `---- Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au