[cvsnt] Re: Scripting through Administration files

[Glen Starrett]

Malcolm.Brown at reuters.com wrote:

> Hi all, got this little problem...
> 
> I have a few little scripts running on particular events. Pretty
> standard stuff, commitinfo checks file format, notify sends out
> emails, that kind of thing. Nothing particularly exotic.
> 
> Now, running this on a unix machine with the cvs 1.11.14 from
> cvshome.org, no problem, get the path to CVSROOT as the 1st
> parameter, and the list of files after that.
> 
> Now, when I do the same on cvsnt all I get is the path to CVSROOT, no
> other parameters. This is the case whether I run it on unix or on
> Windows.
> 
> Really wanted to use cvsnt on both platforms so that I can support
> reserved edit without hacking code, but this is a pretty major
> limitation.
> 
> Any clues on how I can get this working?

There are problems with large commits causing the command line to exceed
it's limit, so Tony changed the file lists to come in on STDIN instead.

-- 
Glen Starrett