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 :-) > > -- > > | | /\ > |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | | / > A distributed system is one on which I cannot get any work done, > because a machine I have never heard of has crashed. > - Leslie Lamport > > > _______________________________________________ > Info-cvs mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs > _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
