CVSWEB(7)

🌸 CVSWEB 🌸

okay so before we even get into it: this is section 7 of the Miscellaneous Information Manual, bestie. not a command, not a config file, a whole manual page. it's giving documentation, it's giving lore. sit down, hydrate, let's go 💅

✨ NAME ✨

cvsweb — a CGI interface to your CVS repository 🫶

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

http://localhost/cgi-bin/cvsweb/

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so cvsweb is a CGI script that hands you convenient web access to your CVS repository. that's the whole vibe. it's a browser girlie, not a terminal girlie ✨

which means — and hear me out — you are unlikely to find it useful to run it by hand. there are no command line options. none. zero. not a single flag. don't go looking for --help, don't go looking for -v, it's not there and it never was 😭

instead? you visit the URL above. that's it. that's the interface. type it in the browser bar and let the CGI script do its main character thing 👑

🎀 FILES 🎀

• /etc/cvsweb/cvsweb.conf — the cvsweb configuration file. you must set up the location of your repositories here before the CGI script will work. like, for real, it will not function. this is not a suggestion, this is the entry fee 💀
• /etc/cvsweb/cvsweb.conf-<symbolic_name> — the per-CVSROOT configuration file. and <symbolic_name> has to be the symbolic name given in @CVSrepositories in /etc/cvsweb/cvsweb.conf. so it's not a free-for-all name, it's gotta match, iykyk 🌸

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> — periodt, give them their flowers 💐

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

no see-also section on this one bestie, we're keeping it exclusive ✨

and that's the whole page fr fr 🦋 this was CVSWEB(7) from the Miscellaneous Information Manual, and the footer is just CVSWEB(7) doing its little signature move — no version number, no date, just the title echoing back at you like a vibe check. obsessed. bye bestie 💖🎀