[cvsnt] Filenames with leading hyphens

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Tue Aug 19 01:52:13 BST 2003


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Dave Muirhead wrote:

> I've tried "cvs commit ./-213232.xml" and that doesn't
> work. I've tried "cvs commit \-213232.xml" and that
> doesn't work.

The standard way is to use cvs commit -- -213232.xml.

AFAIK this won't work in cvs 1.11 (unless they've fixed it now) because
the -- gets stripped out by the command line processor.  cvsnt clients get
around it by inserting an extra '--' in the protocol traffic while sending
most commands.

Tony



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