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From: | Vincent Caron |
Subject: | Re: [Savannah-hackers] CVS little-known feature |
Date: | Tue, 11 Nov 2003 18:31:56 +0100 |
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Penelope Fudd wrote:
It turns out that you don't have to do the 'cvs login' command, because you can specify the password in the 'cvs co' command.
This part of the documentation is really old, I think it's even copied from the original Cederqvist CVS manual. I believe it's meant to stress the fact that with pserver you only login once and then checkout/update many times (password is stored for you in ~/.cvspass forever).
Right after the username, if you put an extra colon, you can then insert the password. In the case of savannah, the password is blank for anoncvs, so the resulting command is: cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anoncvs:@subversions.gnu.org:/webcvs co software/grub ^extra colon Since it doesn't ask for a password, it's useful for scripts and such.
The rule of thumb is "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" :). I mean that most people can do anonymous checkout easily with this documentation and it is sort of 'normalized' (talk about an habit rather). However it is indeed useful for scripts. For our information, could you verify if this syntax has been supported for a long time by CVS ? Thanks !
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