On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 02:44, Eric Siegerman wrote: > 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 $other_args > > -- --snip signature--
Actually, your method sounds to me much more painful because I have to learn how to use sed to do this and run and test the wrapper script over and over again until I debug it due to my limited expertise in coding shell scripts, living with bogus messages in a junk repository until I get it right. My way is quicker and much simpler for me as long as I remember to put the quotes right. E.g., I actually meant to say: cvs ci -m "line 1"$'\n'"line 2"$'\n'"line 3" ... note the change in the position of the single quote and the "$". _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs