CVSSERVICE(1)

💖 cvsservice — the girlies' guide to the DCOP service 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to cvsservice, section 1 of the general commands manual. she's a whole vibe and she's about to let you talk to CVS repositories like it's nothing. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

cvsservice [ generic-options ]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so the CVS service? it's a DCOP service for accessing and working with remote CVS repositories. literally that's her whole thing. and the way she's flexible?? applications can link with this library to access the DCOP service directly from C++ 💅. or, if you're more of a script girly, scripts can access the service using the standard dcop(1) command-line tool. options on options, we love to see it.

for the uninitiated: DCOP is the Desktop Communication Protocol used throughout KDE. yes it's giving very "networking but make it desktop", and yes it ate.

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. and there is one instance of this service for each application instance. no cap 🧚

🎀 Repository

this DCOPObject manages the configuration data of the current CVS repository. the data is automatically updated when other service instances change it. she keeps herself in sync, main character energy fr.

🎀 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. obsessed.

there are two types of jobs:

• first, the non-concurrent job which has to run alone, like cvs update or import. she needs her space, respect it 🙈
• second, the jobs which can run concurrently, like cvs log or annotate. social butterflies, love that for them 🌈

the CVS service is provided with Cervisia, which is part of the KDE Software Development Kit. iconic behavior.

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

for a full summary of options, run:

cvsservice --help

that's it. that's the whole options section. she said "read the help, babe" 💀

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🦋 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. go read it, i believe in you ⭐

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👑 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. a whole friend group, we love a collaborative queen 🫶

this manual page was prepared by Ben Burton <bab@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). so generous, so thoughtful 🎀

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and that's the whole page bestie!! March 19, 2005, general commands manual, CVSSERVICE(1) — the date and the version, right here at the end where they belong. go forth and access those repositories, you absolute legend ✨💖🌸