[Cvsnt] get_user_local_config_data and rsh

[Tony Hoyle]

Francis Irving wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In the code for the :ext: protocol it checks the local config data to
> find out what external command to use:
>
>
> if(get_user_local_config_data("ext","command",command,sizeof(command)))
>
> Can anyone tell me where, if anywhere, this gets set at the moment?

It doesn't get set yet (which is partly why it still reads the
environment as well).

> This is for RSH support in TortoiseCVS.  What I'd like to do is use
> :ext: for both RSH and SSH, having the particular one to use for a
> particular server set when the user checks out the module.
>
> The place for this to be stored seems to be in
> current_server->get_config_data, which I'm assuming is a per-server
> registry key.  Another obvious place to store this would be as an
> extra field somewhere, somehow in CVSROOT.

If you can come up with a syntax for it there's no reason why there
couldn't be an extra field in CVSROOT.

How about:

:ext:{ssh}foo at bar.com:/usr/local/cvs

?

> How do you folk use :ext: for more than one different protocol on
> different servers?

I suspect most people just stick to ssh.

Tony

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