Re: commit message fails

[Daniel Beckham]

I swear, Greg and Larry must be having heart attacks daily due to the amount
of mailing list traffic that just pisses them off.

Since you didn't understand Larry's explanation, you really should go talk
to your local system administrator about this issue and not this list.   It
appears that your cvs executable my actually be a wrapper script of some
sort for the real cvs binary and it's not accepting your arguments properly.
The default distribution of cvs does not, to my knowledge, provide wrapper
scripts named 'cvs', so this must be a home-grown job specific to your unix
system or installation.

Regards,

Daniel

----- Original Message -----
From: "McCann, Brian" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 12:21 PM
Subject: RE: commit message fails


> Larry,
>
> Which cvs script should I look @?
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 1:10 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: commit message fails
>
>
> McCann, Brian writes:
> >
> > When I commit using the -m option, commits messages produce this output
> > any ideas?
> > tia
> > Brian
> >
> > address@hidden test_cvs]$ cvs commit -m "This is a test commit to see
> if
> > the message gets cut short" test.txt
> > cvs commit: nothing known about `is'
> > cvs commit: nothing known about `a'
> > cvs commit: nothing known about `test'
> > cvs commit: nothing known about `commit'
> > cvs commit: nothing known about `to'
> > cvs commit: nothing known about `see'
> > cvs commit: nothing known about `if'
> > cvs commit: nothing known about `the'
> > cvs commit: nothing known about `message'
> > cvs commit: nothing known about `gets'
> > cvs commit: nothing known about `cut'
> > cvs commit: nothing known about `short'
> > cvs [commit aborted]: correct above errors first!
> > address@hidden test_cvs]$
>
> It looks like "cvs" is a (defective) script rather than the CVS
> executable.  Fix the script, or don't use it.
>
> -Larry Jones
>
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