[cvsnt] Re: logging nt working

[Glen Starrett]

Steve Swanson wrote:
> It seems the examples in the file have no chance of working on Windows.
> When I changed the path to an absolute hard-coded path, logging worked.
> 
> But the line in commitlog looked like
>   ""; id; echo "path/filename,1.9"; date; cat
> so something isn't working right. That is, the semicolon separation isn't
> working.  It's not clear which commands will work.

A semicolon is a command separator in *nix (I think it's specific to 
some shells, but I'm no expert).  You can use && as a command separator 
in Win32.  I'm not sure what that first empty string command is supposed 
to be though.


> 
> I guess I can write a little program to do what's intended.

That seems to be what most people do.  Something else to note as a 
difference to some samples not specifically written against CVSNT is 
that CVSNT now takes the file lists off STDIN instead of on the command 
line.  There is a limit to the maximum number of characters on a command 
line that was causing trouble on large commits, so using STDIN works 
around that nicely.

Regards,

-- 
Glen Starrett