NAME¶
cvsservice - a DCOP service for accessing CVS repositories
SYNOPSIS¶
cvsservice [
generic-options ]
DESCRIPTION¶
The CVS service is a DCOP service for accessing and working with remote CVS
repositories. Applications may link with this library to access the DCOP
service directly from C++. Alternatively, scripts may access the service using
the standard
dcop(1) command-line tool.
DCOP is the Desktop Communication Protocol used throughout KDE.
The CVS DCOP service consists of the following three parts:
- CvsService
- The main interface to the functionality of the cvs(1) command line
client. There is one method for each CVS command, e.g., add, checkout,
commit, etc. The methods assemble the command line arguments, create a
CvsJob and return a DCOPRef object for it to the caller. There is one
instance of this service for each application instance.
- Repository
- This DCOPObject manages the configuration data of the current CVS
repository. The data is automatically updated when other service instances
change it.
- CvsJob
- This class represents a CVS job. You can execute and cancel it, and you
can retrieve the output of the cvs client by either connecting to the
proper DCOP signals or by using the output() method. There are two types
of jobs. First the non-concurrent job which has to run alone, like cvs
update or import. Second the jobs which can run concurrently like cvs log
or annotate.
The CVS service is provided with Cervisia, which is part of the KDE Software
Development Kit.
OPTIONS¶
For a full summary of options, run
cvsservice --help.
SEE ALSO¶
cervisia(1),
cvs(1),
cvsaskpass(1),
dcop(1).
Details of how to use the CVS service from within a shell script, a C++ program
or through the JavaScript bindings can be found in
/usr/share/doc/libcvsservice0/DESIGN.
AUTHOR¶
The CVS service was written by Christian Loose
<christian.loose@kdemail.net>.
Cervisia was written by Bernd Gehrmann <bernd@physik.hu-berlin.de>,
Christian Loose <christian.loose@kdemail.net>, Andre Woebbeking
<woebbeking@web.de>, Carlos Woelz <carloswoelz@imap-mail.com> and
others.
This manual page was prepared by Ben Burton <bab@debian.org> for the
Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).