[cvsnt] RE: Embedding newlines in the -m option

[Jason]

Our Code Reviewer software (see URL in my sig) checks in multi-line
comments to CVS using the CvsNT command-line.  We haven't had any
problems with our approach which is: Simply embed new-line characters in
the quoted string.  For example:

cvs commit -m "This
is
a
multi-line comment
" myfile.c

If this doesn't work in your particular shell, try using another shell
or try writing a small program that calls system() (or you language's
equivalent) to invoke cvs.

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