Re: how do I cvs delete a file that starts with a hyphen?

[Larry Jones]

Eric Siegerman writes:
> 
> It probably has to be "first" ASCII-wise, not just listed first
> on the command line, since CVS likes to sort lists of files a lot
> of the time.  Try making a file whose name starts with "," or
> "+", "cvs add"ing that, and then committing the whole directory.

That won't help -- the problem is that commit has to run a diff between
the previous version of the file and the new version to store in the RCS
file and that diff execution doesn't protect against filenames starting
with "-".

-Larry Jones

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