cvsserver: Reword documentation on necessity of write access
Reworded the section about git-cvsserver needing to update the
database.
Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
index 6a5fcfd..535214c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cvsserver.txt
@@ -114,8 +114,14 @@
store information about the repository for faster access. The
database doesn't contain any persitent data and can be completly
regenerated from the git repository at any time. The database
-needs to be updated (i.e. written to) after every commit. That
-means that even if you offer only read access (e.g. by using
+needs to be updated (i.e. written to) after every commit.
+
+If the commit is done directly by using git (as opposed to
+using git-cvsserver) the update will need to happen on the
+next repository access by git-cvsserver, independent of
+access method and requested operation.
+
+That means that even if you offer only read access (e.g. by using
the pserver method), git-cvsserver should have write access to
the database to work reliably (otherwise you need to make sure
that the database if up-to-date all the time git-cvsserver is run).
@@ -125,7 +131,7 @@
temporary files in the same directory as the database file on
write so it might not be enough to grant the users using
git-cvsserver write access to the database file without granting
-them also write access to the directory.
+them write access to the directory, too.
You can configure the database backend with the following
configuration variables:
