diff --git a/git-cvsserver.perl b/git-cvsserver.perl
index 7a57177a81..64c255740b 100755
--- a/git-cvsserver.perl
+++ b/git-cvsserver.perl
@@ -73,8 +73,8 @@
     'status'          => \&req_status,
     'admin'           => \&req_CATCHALL,
     'history'         => \&req_CATCHALL,
-    'watchers'        => \&req_CATCHALL,
-    'editors'         => \&req_CATCHALL,
+    'watchers'        => \&req_EMPTY,
+    'editors'         => \&req_EMPTY,
     'annotate'        => \&req_annotate,
     'Global_option'   => \&req_Globaloption,
     #'annotate'        => \&req_CATCHALL,
@@ -199,6 +199,11 @@ sub req_CATCHALL
     $log->warn("Unhandled command : req_$cmd : $data");
 }
 
+# This method invariably succeeds with an empty response.
+sub req_EMPTY
+{
+    print "ok\n";
+}
 
 # Root pathname \n
 #     Response expected: no. Tell the server which CVSROOT to use. Note that
@@ -958,6 +963,17 @@ sub req_update
             $meta = $updater->getmeta($filename);
         }
 
+        # If -p was given, "print" the contents of the requested revision.
+        if ( exists ( $state->{opt}{p} ) ) {
+            if ( defined ( $meta->{revision} ) ) {
+                $log->info("Printing '$filename' revision " . $meta->{revision});
+
+                transmitfile($meta->{filehash}, { print => 1 });
+            }
+
+            next;
+        }
+
 	if ( ! defined $meta )
 	{
 	    $meta = {
@@ -1091,9 +1107,9 @@ sub req_update
             my $file_local = $filepart . ".mine";
             system("ln","-s",$state->{entries}{$filename}{modified_filename}, $file_local);
             my $file_old = $filepart . "." . $oldmeta->{revision};
-            transmitfile($oldmeta->{filehash}, $file_old);
+            transmitfile($oldmeta->{filehash}, { targetfile => $file_old });
             my $file_new = $filepart . "." . $meta->{revision};
-            transmitfile($meta->{filehash}, $file_new);
+            transmitfile($meta->{filehash}, { targetfile => $file_new });
 
             # we need to merge with the local changes ( M=successful merge, C=conflict merge )
             $log->info("Merging $file_local, $file_old, $file_new");
@@ -1423,6 +1439,8 @@ sub req_status
     {
         $filename = filecleanup($filename);
 
+        next if exists($state->{opt}{l}) && index($filename, '/', length($state->{prependdir})) >= 0;
+
         my $meta = $updater->getmeta($filename);
         my $oldmeta = $meta;
 
@@ -1466,8 +1484,10 @@ sub req_status
 
         $status ||= "Unknown";
 
+        my ($filepart) = filenamesplit($filename);
+
         print "M ===================================================================\n";
-        print "M File: $filename\tStatus: $status\n";
+        print "M File: $filepart\tStatus: $status\n";
         if ( defined($state->{entries}{$filename}{revision}) )
         {
             print "M Working revision:\t" . $state->{entries}{$filename}{revision} . "\n";
@@ -1541,14 +1561,14 @@ sub req_diff
                 print "E File $filename at revision 1.$revision1 doesn't exist\n";
                 next;
             }
-            transmitfile($meta1->{filehash}, $file1);
+            transmitfile($meta1->{filehash}, { targetfile => $file1 });
         }
         # otherwise we just use the working copy revision
         else
         {
             ( undef, $file1 ) = tempfile( DIR => $TEMP_DIR, OPEN => 0 );
             $meta1 = $updater->getmeta($filename, $wrev);
-            transmitfile($meta1->{filehash}, $file1);
+            transmitfile($meta1->{filehash}, { targetfile => $file1 });
         }
 
         # if we have a second -r switch, use it too
@@ -1563,7 +1583,7 @@ sub req_diff
                 next;
             }
 
-            transmitfile($meta2->{filehash}, $file2);
+            transmitfile($meta2->{filehash}, { targetfile => $file2 });
         }
         # otherwise we just use the working copy
         else
@@ -1576,7 +1596,7 @@ sub req_diff
         {
             ( undef, $file2 ) = tempfile( DIR => $TEMP_DIR, OPEN => 0 );
             $meta2 = $updater->getmeta($filename, $wrev);
-            transmitfile($meta2->{filehash}, $file2);
+            transmitfile($meta2->{filehash}, { targetfile => $file2 });
         }
 
         # We need to have retrieved something useful
@@ -1708,8 +1728,7 @@ sub req_log
             print "M revision 1.$revision->{revision}\n";
             # reformat the date for log output
             $revision->{modified} = sprintf('%04d/%02d/%02d %s', $3, $DATE_LIST->{$2}, $1, $4 ) if ( $revision->{modified} =~ /(\d+)\s+(\w+)\s+(\d+)\s+(\S+)/ and defined($DATE_LIST->{$2}) );
-            $revision->{author} =~ s/\s+.*//;
-            $revision->{author} =~ s/^(.{8}).*/$1/;
+            $revision->{author} = cvs_author($revision->{author});
             print "M date: $revision->{modified};  author: $revision->{author};  state: " . ( $revision->{filehash} eq "deleted" ? "dead" : "Exp" ) . ";  lines: +2 -3\n";
             my $commitmessage = $updater->commitmessage($revision->{commithash});
             $commitmessage =~ s/^/M /mg;
@@ -1824,8 +1843,7 @@ sub req_annotate
                 unless ( defined ( $metadata->{$commithash} ) )
                 {
                     $metadata->{$commithash} = $updater->getmeta($filename, $commithash);
-                    $metadata->{$commithash}{author} =~ s/\s+.*//;
-                    $metadata->{$commithash}{author} =~ s/^(.{8}).*/$1/;
+                    $metadata->{$commithash}{author} = cvs_author($metadata->{$commithash}{author});
                     $metadata->{$commithash}{modified} = sprintf("%02d-%s-%02d", $1, $2, $3) if ( $metadata->{$commithash}{modified} =~ /^(\d+)\s(\w+)\s\d\d(\d\d)/ );
                 }
                 printf("M 1.%-5d      (%-8s %10s): %s\n",
@@ -2005,14 +2023,17 @@ sub revparse
     return undef;
 }
 
-# This method takes a file hash and does a CVS "file transfer" which transmits the
-# size of the file, and then the file contents.
-# If a second argument $targetfile is given, the file is instead written out to
-# a file by the name of $targetfile
+# This method takes a file hash and does a CVS "file transfer".  Its
+# exact behaviour depends on a second, optional hash table argument:
+# - If $options->{targetfile}, dump the contents to that file;
+# - If $options->{print}, use M/MT to transmit the contents one line
+#   at a time;
+# - Otherwise, transmit the size of the file, followed by the file
+#   contents.
 sub transmitfile
 {
     my $filehash = shift;
-    my $targetfile = shift;
+    my $options = shift;
 
     if ( defined ( $filehash ) and $filehash eq "deleted" )
     {
@@ -2034,11 +2055,20 @@ sub transmitfile
 
     if ( open my $fh, '-|', "git-cat-file", "blob", $filehash )
     {
-        if ( defined ( $targetfile ) )
+        if ( defined ( $options->{targetfile} ) )
         {
+            my $targetfile = $options->{targetfile};
             open NEWFILE, ">", $targetfile or die("Couldn't open '$targetfile' for writing : $!");
             print NEWFILE $_ while ( <$fh> );
             close NEWFILE or die("Failed to write '$targetfile': $!");
+        } elsif ( defined ( $options->{print} ) && $options->{print} ) {
+            while ( <$fh> ) {
+                if( /\n\z/ ) {
+                    print 'M ', $_;
+                } else {
+                    print 'MT text ', $_, "\n";
+                }
+            }
         } else {
             print "$size\n";
             print while ( <$fh> );
@@ -2107,6 +2137,16 @@ sub kopts_from_path
     }
 }
 
+# Generate a CVS author name from Git author information, by taking
+# the first eight characters of the user part of the email address.
+sub cvs_author
+{
+    my $author_line = shift;
+    (my $author) = $author_line =~ /<([^>@]{1,8})/;
+
+    $author;
+}
+
 package GITCVS::log;
 
 ####
diff --git a/t/t9400-git-cvsserver-server.sh b/t/t9400-git-cvsserver-server.sh
index b91b151417..166b43f783 100755
--- a/t/t9400-git-cvsserver-server.sh
+++ b/t/t9400-git-cvsserver-server.sh
@@ -420,4 +420,54 @@ test_expect_success 'cvs update (merge no-op)' \
     GIT_CONFIG="$git_config" cvs -Q update &&
     diff -q merge ../merge'
 
+cd "$WORKDIR"
+test_expect_success 'cvs update (-p)' '
+    touch really-empty &&
+    echo Line 1 > no-lf &&
+    echo -n Line 2 >> no-lf &&
+    git add really-empty no-lf &&
+    git commit -q -m "Update -p test" &&
+    git push gitcvs.git >/dev/null &&
+    cd cvswork &&
+    GIT_CONFIG="$git_config" cvs update &&
+    rm -f failures &&
+    for i in merge no-lf empty really-empty; do
+        GIT_CONFIG="$git_config" cvs update -p "$i" >$i.out
+        diff $i.out ../$i >>failures 2>&1
+    done &&
+    test -z "$(cat failures)"
+'
+
+#------------
+# CVS STATUS
+#------------
+
+cd "$WORKDIR"
+test_expect_success 'cvs status' '
+    mkdir status.dir &&
+    echo Line > status.dir/status.file &&
+    echo Line > status.file &&
+    git add status.dir status.file &&
+    git commit -q -m "Status test" &&
+    git push gitcvs.git >/dev/null &&
+    cd cvswork &&
+    GIT_CONFIG="$git_config" cvs update &&
+    GIT_CONFIG="$git_config" cvs status | grep "^File: status.file" >../out &&
+    test $(wc -l <../out) = 2
+'
+
+cd "$WORKDIR"
+test_expect_success 'cvs status (nonrecursive)' '
+    cd cvswork &&
+    GIT_CONFIG="$git_config" cvs status -l | grep "^File: status.file" >../out &&
+    test $(wc -l <../out) = 1
+'
+
+cd "$WORKDIR"
+test_expect_success 'cvs status (no subdirs in header)' '
+    cd cvswork &&
+    GIT_CONFIG="$git_config" cvs status | grep ^File: >../out &&
+    ! grep / <../out
+'
+
 test_done