On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 04:47:16PM -0500, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> lodewijk@reddwarf.xs4all.nl writes:
>
> > Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> >
> > > I realize that extracting Apache and such from the process would be
> > > very hard, but would it be difficult to make the standard tools able
> > > to operate through port forwarded ssh connections the way that CVS
> > > happily operates via CVS_RSH=ssh based connections?
> >
> > on a somewhat related note, using CVS over ssh I can set up a repository on
> > machines I only have a lowly shell account on. what is going to be the
> > Subversion way of achieving that? right now setting up a server is pretty
> > heavy stuff compared to 'cvs init'. will (or can, even) there be something
> > like it?
>
> Can you really run 'cvs init' over a network connection? It seems to
> hang when kfogel tries that. Can you give an example?
I think the point is that if you have shell but not root access to the
machine, you can login and do 'cvs init', then use the resulting repository
remotely with CVS_RSH.
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