Re: problem with -m option for ci and import when using commitinfo,loginfo,

[Larry Jones]

Sandrine Boulanger writes:
> 
> 1) Issue with cvs import -m - High priority
> when using cvs import -m "description of the import" <module> <vendor>
> <tag>, it looks like the command interprets the description between the
> quotes as arguments for the import, and instead of importing <module>,
> it considers the first word as the log message, the second word as the
> module to import, the third word as the vendor tag, and the rest as
> release tags. Then, it imports the files within <module> under
> $CVSROOT/<first word of the description>
> Any clue ?

That's a function of you operating system (which I'm guessing is
Windows), it doesn't have anything to do with CVS.

> 2) Issue with cvs ci -m - Medium priority
> when using cvs ci -m "description" ...., as no editor is called to enter
> the log message, the template defined in rcstemplate is not called. Is
> there any way to force the content of the "description" to be paste in
> the template ?

You have to enable FORCE_USE_EDITOR in src/options.h before building
CVS.

-Larry Jones

I think my cerebellum just fused. -- Calvin