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We do not provide write access to CVSROOT in the CVS repositories for the following reason:

FAQ

Question: SF provides write access to CVSROOT, how comes you don't?

A: Note that you still do not have direct shell access to cvs.sf.net. You can bypass this restriction through CVSROOT hooks but that's still a risk for your repository integrity (a bug in a script of yours could corrupt your CVS history). We don't know how/if they protect against misuing config and password though - technically you could commit as another system user that way. We would be interested in more information on that point.

Question: Can I read (not write) the CVSROOT/ contents?

I tried to get it via CVS:

   cvs -d :ext:me@cvs.savannah.nongnu.org:/cvsroot/myproject co CVSROOT

and I get an empty CVSROOT dir, this must be a new security feature?

A: Rather a simplification: there's no need for Savannah to use rcs to edit CVSROOT/ that way. (Also, indeed, you can't ask CVS to commit to CVSROOT even if its permissions were lax).

However you still can read it using:

   rsync -av cvs.sv.nongnu.org::sources/myproject/CVSROOT .




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