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Various git-cvsserver updates.

* mo/cvs-server-updates:
  t9402: Use TABs for indentation
  t9402: Rename check.cvsCount and check.list
  t9402: Simplify git ls-tree
  t9402: Add missing &&; Code style
  t9402: No space after IO-redirection
  t9402: Dont use test_must_fail cvs
  t9402: improve check_end_tree() and check_end_full_tree()
  t9402: sed -i is not portable
  cvsserver Documentation: new cvs ... -r support
  cvsserver: add t9402 to test branch and tag refs
  cvsserver: support -r and sticky tags for most operations
  cvsserver: Add version awareness to argsfromdir
  cvsserver: generalize getmeta() to recognize commit refs
  cvsserver: implement req_Sticky and related utilities
  cvsserver: add misc commit lookup, file meta data, and file listing functions
  cvsserver: define a tag name character escape mechanism
  cvsserver: cleanup extra slashes in filename arguments
  cvsserver: factor out git-log parsing logic
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Junio C Hamano committed Jan 24, 2013
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Expand Up @@ -359,6 +359,43 @@ Operations supported

All the operations required for normal use are supported, including
checkout, diff, status, update, log, add, remove, commit.

Most CVS command arguments that read CVS tags or revision numbers
(typically -r) work, and also support any git refspec
(tag, branch, commit ID, etc).
However, CVS revision numbers for non-default branches are not well
emulated, and cvs log does not show tags or branches at
all. (Non-main-branch CVS revision numbers superficially resemble CVS
revision numbers, but they actually encode a git commit ID directly,
rather than represent the number of revisions since the branch point.)

Note that there are two ways to checkout a particular branch.
As described elsewhere on this page, the "module" parameter
of cvs checkout is interpreted as a branch name, and it becomes
the main branch. It remains the main branch for a given sandbox
even if you temporarily make another branch sticky with
cvs update -r. Alternatively, the -r argument can indicate
some other branch to actually checkout, even though the module
is still the "main" branch. Tradeoffs (as currently
implemented): Each new "module" creates a new database on disk with
a history for the given module, and after the database is created,
operations against that main branch are fast. Or alternatively,
-r doesn't take any extra disk space, but may be significantly slower for
many operations, like cvs update.

If you want to refer to a git refspec that has characters that are
not allowed by CVS, you have two options. First, it may just work
to supply the git refspec directly to the appropriate CVS -r argument;
some CVS clients don't seem to do much sanity checking of the argument.
Second, if that fails, you can use a special character escape mechanism
that only uses characters that are valid in CVS tags. A sequence
of 4 or 5 characters of the form (underscore (`"_"`), dash (`"-"`),
one or two characters, and dash (`"-"`)) can encode various characters based
on the one or two letters: `"s"` for slash (`"/"`), `"p"` for
period (`"."`), `"u"` for underscore (`"_"`), or two hexadecimal digits
for any byte value at all (typically an ASCII number, or perhaps a part
of a UTF-8 encoded character).

Legacy monitoring operations are not supported (edit, watch and related).
Exports and tagging (tags and branches) are not supported at this stage.

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