Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20021101100253.02bc4e80@pop3.cris.com> X-Sender: rrschulz AT pop3 DOT cris DOT com Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 10:07:27 -0800 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Randall R Schulz Subject: Re: cvs can't parse its arguments -- known issue? In-Reply-To: <87r8e5b2i0.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Matt, I cannot replicate that failure (I get a password prompt). Are you invoking it from a Cygwin shell, or from CMD.exe (or COMMAND.COM?). You might want to escape the @ sign, since under certain circumstances it's special (i.e., it's a extended shell argument processing syntax meant to allow arguments contained in files to be incorporated into the command line). Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 09:53 2002-11-01, Matt Armstrong wrote: >I'm seeing some very odd behavior from cvs and I wonder if others are >seeing it too. > >No matter what args I pass it, cvs tells me it is an invalid option -- >even the --help-options arg. All other cygwin stuff seems to be >functioning well. > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >% cvs -d :pserver:gnus AT cvs DOT gnus DOT org:/usr/local/cvsroot login >cvs: invalid option -- >Usage: cvs [cvs-options] command [command-options-and-arguments] > where cvs-options are -q, -n, etc. > (specify --help-options for a list of options) > where command is add, admin, etc. > (specify --help-commands for a list of commands > or --help-synonyms for a list of command synonyms) > where command-options-and-arguments depend on the specific command > (specify -H followed by a command name for command-specific help) > Specify --help to receive this message > >The Concurrent Versions System (CVS) is a tool for version control. >For CVS updates and additional information, see > the CVS home page at http://www.cvshome.org/ or > Pascal Molli's CVS site at > http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs-index.html >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >I just installed CVS via the cygwin setup utility and have a recently >upgraded installation (cygcheck below). -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/