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Re: Files beginning with a minus sign
From: |
Ronald Petty |
Subject: |
Re: Files beginning with a minus sign |
Date: |
28 Mar 2003 12:58:47 -0600 |
What about
cvs commit "-filename.txt"
?
or
cvs commit "./-filename.txt"
Ron
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 12:14, Eric Siegerman wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 11:15:43AM +0000, Franky Van Liedekerke wrote:
> > cvs commit -m "message" -- -filename.txt
> >
> > So now the cvs command itself ws happy, but the server complains with:
> >
> > up-to-date check failed for -filename.txt
>
> Here are some possibilities (*not* tested):
> 1. cvs commit ./-filename.txt
> Forward slash to hopefully keep CVS happy
> 2. cvs commit .\-filename.txt
> Backslash to hopefully keep Windows happy
> 3. Same as (1), but do it on a UNIX box
> 4. Same as (1), but do it on the CVS server itself, in a local
> (i.e. non-client-server) sandbox
>
> If all else fails, and if you don't need the file's revision
> history (but think twice about this!):
> 5. Just go into the repo and "rm ./-filename.txt,v" (I know the
> "./" will keep rm happy; that variant I *have*, umm, tested, on
> a number of occasions :-)
>
> --
>
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