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Tony Hoyle wrote: >On Thu, 8 May 2003 18:02:20 +0200, "Hartmut Honisch" <hartmut_honisch at web.de> >wrote: > > > >>Hi everybody, >> >>when using TortoiseCVS, cvs command lines sometimes become longer than >>Windows permits (4k on NT, 256 bytes on 9x). Is there an alternative way of >>passing commands to cvs, e.g. make cvs read them from a file? If not, Tony, >>what's you opinion about adding such a feature? >> >> >> >It's not really practical - cvs relies on correct argc/argv parameters passed >to main(). > >There should be no reason for a command line to get that large at all... >You'd have to individually select thousands of files to do that. Tortoise has >never done such a thing for me - it always correctly passes the >module/directory names. > This can happen e.g. when you Add a large number of files - in this case you of course have to pass the individual filenames, not just the directory. -Torsten