Re: cvs2cl help

[Todd Denniston]

Darius Blaszijk wrote:
> I would like to use cvs2cl to make changelogs for my project, but when I do:
> cvs2cl --help I get the following error message:
>
> Can't exec /bin/sh at C:\Datamodeler\trunk\cvs2cl.pl line 1.

I have never fully investigated why, but cvs2cl.pl has problems running on 
windows (it may work under cygwin but not with the perl directly under windows).
part of the reason is that the first line is
#!/bin/sh ... which says run the second line under /bin/sh, and windows 
usually does not have a /bin/sh, however when you bypass that problem others 
seem to creep up.

If you have time to figure out all the problems and mail them to the bug 
address, I am sure kfogel (or current maintainer) would like to know.

However, there is a workaround ... someone has made a cvs2cl.py (python 
script) and it seems to come with CVSNT or one of the GUIs that ship with 
CVSNT.  the cvs2cl.py seemed to do the same thing as cvs2cl several versions 
back, you may want to check with whoever is maintaining it and see if they are 
keeping up with the functionality in cvs2cl.pl. ... anyhow try cvs2cl.py on 
your command line and see if it works for you.



> It appears that this script is written only for Linux, or am I doing
> something wrong here? If I comment the first line out (#!/bin/sh
> exec) then I get an error on the second line.
>
> I'm running WinXP.
>
> Kind regards, Darius Blaszijk


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