It appears that in WinCvs 1.3.x neither the “RSA private key file (identity)” nor the “Additional SSH options” settings have any effect at all. Whats going on?
This is indeed a known legacy issue. WinCvs 1.2 used to use a specially patched version of CVS which read the additional options and the keyfile location from the environment (which is where WinCvs puts those entries). No other cvs.exe acts this way! WinCvs 1.3.x however no longer uses that cvs.exe but a regular CVSNT executable instead. Therefore, as you have found out, the SSH options are not effective when using the out-of-the-box cvs.exe . The reason why these options still remained on the dialog are A. they were still useful if you downgraded your cvs.exe and B. as you can see in WinCvs 1.3.18 and later the SSH options dialog has by now been completely removed in the course of a major overhaul of the whole CVSROOT and connection setup handling (it has been rewritten almost from scratch – also see here) which rendered an effort to redesign that “doomed” dialog rather pointless. If you don’t want to use the new versions yet the workarounds are to either: • append the additional opti
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