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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 10:07:27 -0800
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: cvs can't parse its arguments -- known issue?
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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).


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