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

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Tue Jan 11 00:41:55 GMT 2005


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Jerzy Kaczorowski wrote:
> Tony,
> 
> There seem to be a bug in the tag command line parsing if it contains "--"
> to mark the last argument and the begining of files, e.g.:
> cvs.exe tag a -- -hyphenfile.tst
> cvs.exe tag: nothing known about --
> cvs.exe [tag aborted]: correct the above errors first!
> 
> But other commands work, e.g.:
> cvs.exe status -q -- -hyphenfile.tst
> File: -hyphenfile.tst   Status: Up-to-date

That's a bug in status in fact.  cvsnt always sends "--" before the 
filenames automatically.

Tony



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