Re: [HACKERS] CVSup

On Fri, 1 May 1998, Maurice Gittens wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I don't understand the problem CVSup is intended to solve given
> that CVS allows remote access to the repository using standard cvs
> commands. Is there a specific reason why we can't/don't have readonly access
> to the postgresql repository?
>
> I think it's neat to be able to use commands like "cvs diff" etc. However
> I really hate it that my changes seem to get overwritten why I using
> CVSup since this doesn't happen when using the "cvs update".
>
> Can anyone explain why this is the way it is?

    When I set things up, I could find no instructions for setting up
anon-cvs that I felt comfortable implementing from a security
standpoint...

    If you remove the 'tag=.' part of the CVSup config file, you can
pull down the complete CVS repository to your machine to manipulate as you
want to...