Unix in a Nutshell, 4th Edition

cvs Options

Options to the cvs command are supplied before the particular subcommand to be executed. This section focuses on options that you pass to the cvs executable itself, not to any specific CVS command. The following options are valid:

-a

Authenticate all network traffic. Without this option, the initial connection for the command is authenticated, but later traffic along the same data stream is assumed to be from the same source.

This option is available only with GSS-API connections, but if you use ssh as your rsh replacement in the ext connection mode, ssh authenticates the data stream.

This option is supported if it is listed in cvs --help-options. The command-line client can be compiled to support it by using the --enable-client option to the configure script.

--allow-root= directory

Used as part of the inetd command string for the server, kserver, and pserver connection methods. The directory is the repository root directory that the server allows connections to. Using --allow-root more than once in a command allows users to connect to any of the specified repositories.

-d repository_path

Use repository_path as the path to the repository root directory. This option overrides both the CVSROOT environment variable and the contents of the Root file in the sandbox’s CVS subdirectory. It also overrides the contents of the .cvsrc file.

The syntax for the repository path is:

    [:method:][[[user][:password]@]hostname[:[port]]]/path

See Essential CVS for a full explanation of each ...