Can I configure review-board to access CVS through mount

Question

I have CVS installed on a Windows 7 computer with pserver and it works fine. I have Review Board installed on a Linux computer. I tried to add the repository to RB, I copied the usual string ":pserver:user@cvsmachine:/myrepo" but no luck. I tried 50 different variations, including SSH with :ext: and nothing works. Always I get

A repository was not found at the specified path.

So I decided instead to just create a mount point on the Linux computer to the cvsroot directory on the Windows computer. Then I use the mount point path to add the repository to RB.

This works! Only I have to set the "name" of the repo in RB to match the name in the "CVS/root" on the client. Use post-review -d to see the desired name.

My question is: it is safe to do this? Is this going to corrupt my repository? I think RB only reads the repo, right?

Answer 1

I've since learned that using CVS via shared drive is common practice, and CVS seems to be able to checkout fine with read-only access.

The reason that review-board fails with pserver is that it REQUIRES you to have a file called CVSROOT/modules. If your repository doesn't have that file (and ours doesn't), it chokes.

imo, this is a bug in RB, and the most reliable way to get a list of modules is with "cvs co -l" and "cvs -n up -d", as explained here.