[cvsnt] Question about administrative file syntax

Mon May 23 20:58:23 BST 2005

In the CVSNT manual Appendix B talks about the parameters that can be 
passed to a script.  I have a shell script called testScript.sh that is 
called from the commitinfo file.  I've been trying to pass a few options 
like %s %m %p.  Problem is, they aren't getting expanded at the time the 
script is invoked.  The entry in the commitinfo looks like this:

     DEFAULT /usr/local/cvs/CVSROOT/testScript.sh %s %m %p

The shell script just takes these and echos them back out:

     #!/bin/bash
     #
     # Test Script - All this does is echo back to the user when invoked.
     #
     echo "+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++"
     echo "This is a test of the commitinfo script handling.  Please 
ignore."
     echo "$0 $@"
     echo "+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++"

Here's the output of a commit done remotely with WinCVS:

     cvs commit -m "Adding line to test the commitinfo script." -- newFile 
(in directory      C:\CVS_WORK\sandbox\DonZ_Test\)
     +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
     This is a test of the commitinfo script handling.  Please ignore.
     /usr/local/cvs/CVSROOT/testScript.sh %s %m %p 
/usr/local/cvs/sandbox/DonZ_Test
     +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
     Checking in newFile;
     /usr/local/cvs/sandbox/DonZ_Test/newFile,v  <--  newFile
     new revision: 1.9; previous revision: 1.8
     done

     ***** CVS exited normally with code 0 *****

It's not coming back with output that I expected.  I was expecting to see 
the %s %m %p expanded, and didn't expect to see the physical location in 
the repository displayed (which wasn't one of the passed parameters!).  Do 
these parameters need to be quoted when passed to the shell script?

Thanks,
Don Zielke
American Electric Power
Direct (614) 583-6337
Audinet 8-220-6337
Email dzielke (at) aep.com
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