[cvsnt] CVSNT Broken! taginfo - Additional Info

[Glen Starrett]

Bo Berglund wrote:
> It is possible, by doing a mod to the script such that the last
> parameter becomes  %{sVvt}.
> It gives the CVSMailer a command line parameter that contains
> individual tag values for each file as follows (wrapped line):
> 
> Parameter 5: ModuleXX ModuleXXdoc.txt,1.68,1.68.2.1,Branch_Tst4
> SecondFile.txt,1.20,1.20.2.1,Branch_Tst3 ThirdBranchFile.txt,1.2,1.3,
> ThirdFile.txt,1.11.2.2,1.11.2.3,Branch_MergeTest
> 
> But the downside is that this will enlarge the command line, possibly
> very much so and this in turn can trigger the Windows limitation to
> the length of the command line that originally forced us to move the
> list of tagged files for taginfo from command line to STDIN.
> So it is not really a viable way.

Can you use the %< then the %{sVvt} syntax to get that in through stdin? 
  I'm really not sure how it all works, but from what I saw last night 
it seemed to indicate that could be done.

-- 
Glen Starrett