[cvsnt] embedding newlines in the -m option. how?

[Lawson.Reed]

Thank you all for the responses. Glen hit the nail on the
head. Maybe its not a problem :-)

John, that sounds like a good approach. I have Cygwin
loaded. I wonder if the bash would work too. Thing 
is I am driving this with a perl script and I think
that the system() function calls command.exe. I 
wonder if there is a way to change that....

Anyway, Thank you all again.
__________________________________
Reed Lawson
IGT Firmware Engineering
(775) 448-0755



> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Hall [mailto:john-news1 at cambridgetechgroup.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 6:00 AM
> To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
> Subject: Re: [cvsnt] embedding newlines in the -m option. how?
> 
> 
> "Oliver Giesen" <ogware at gmx.net> wrote in message
> news:bj4foh$dv0$1 at sisko.local.nodomain.org...
> 
> > > WinCVS does it somehow for "cvs commit -m "foo\n foo"" right?
> 
> > The problem is that in a console window or batch file the newline
> > character is treated as a command delimiter. If you use the
> > CreateProcess API to invoke CVS there is no problem embedding line
> > feeds (unescaped) in the commandline string and cvs.exe 
> seems to accept
> > this without problems AFAICT.
> >
> > I haven't looked at the code yet but I assume WinCvs just 
> displays the
> > \n for the command dump and really uses CR LF...
> >
> > That said, I have no idea how to really do it from the 
> commandline or a
> > batch file and don't know if it is possible at all.
> 
> When I've wanted to embed newlines in comments with cvs admin -m, I've
> resorted
> to using a version of zsh for Windows 
> http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/:
> 
>  #cvs admin -m1.4:"This is the first line of a comment.
>  dquote> And a second.
>  dquote> " file.txt
>  RCS file: /cvs/module/file.txt,v
>  done
> 
> Cheers,
> John
> 
> 
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