not a bug: feature possibility: reading cvs commands from stdin

[stephan beal]

Hello, Cvs people,

i'm sorry if this is the wrong list to post a feature-request mail, but it 
seemed like the most appropriate place...

i've often been surprised that cvs doesn't have the ability to read in 
commands from stdin/scripts:

#!/usr/bin/cvs -z3
up -r 1.1 some/file
up -r HEAD some/other/file
up -r 1.45 yet/another/file
status some/other/file2
diff -u file1
...

or: cat mycommands | cvs -d:ext:....

Assuming each command line inherits all "global" options (like cvsroot), it 
seems like this would be an efficient way of handing many operations over one 
connection.

Take care,

----- stephan
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