[cvsnt] Re: Bug in command line parsing for tag command

[Tony Hoyle]

Jerzy Kaczorowski wrote:
>>"a" is an argument.  You want:
>>cvs.exe tag -- a -hyphenfile.txt
> 
> 
> The syntax is correct. "a" is an argument - tag name here - and after that

Yes it's an argument, not an option.

> it's followed by a double-hyphen to mark the end of options. After a "--"

"--" marks the end of options...

> there can be only files, and that is how the files starting with hyphen can

..or other arguments.

> be properly handled by all other commands. If you don't specify the end of
> options command parser can't tell what's the file and takes the first
> character following the hyphen as an option resulting in errors, e.g.:

You don't need to - cvsnt has done this automatically for a long time now.

Tony