Re: Command-line multi-line messages for commit

[Eric Siegerman]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 12:46:42PM +0300, Stephen Biggs wrote:
> I got it to work using another way which actually works better if you
> don't want to be so interactive (one press of the enter key instead of
> 3):
> 
> $ cvs ci -m "line 1"'$\n'"line 2"'$\n'"line 3"

Yikes!  Non-interactive it may be, but pretty painful!  How about
writing a wrapper shell script?  You would invoke it as:
   cvs-wrapper -m 'message\ncontaining\nmultiple lines' other-args

It would have to do something like:
  - extract (and remove) the -m and its value from the command line
  - turn the "\n"s into newlines (and any other transformations
    you like)
  - export CVSEDITOR=`which cat` into the environment
  - go:
        echo $transformed_log_message | cvs $other_args

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