michi bloggt!

Naively i assumed that connecting to a cvs server over ssh over a different port, is just a matter of

cvs -d :ext:michi@cvs.some.server.com:12345/opt/cvs co MyProject

But this results in the following error:

CVSROOT port specification is only valid for gserver, kserver, and pserver connection methods.

According to this posting
-> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2004-10/msg00291.html
it seems, that it is necessary to define an ssh-Alias by adding the following lines to ~/.ssh/config:

Host SomeCvsServer
  HostKeyAlias cvs.some.server.com
  Hostname cvs.some.server.com
  Port 12345

Then the following command will be rewarded with success:

cvs -d :ext:michi@SomeCvsServer:/opt/cvs co MyProject

(I am posting boring stuff like this for the sole purpose of some poor anonymous fellow in the future, who will struggle with the same problem, and googles his way to my blog. Sorry for all the others, who just dont give a damn about the above.)