On Sat, 25 May, Stephan Beal wrote: > Kind of: > > create a file (we'll call it foo) with your list of files and then > try: > > fossil commit -m '...' --args foo > > that will replace the "--args foo" part with the contents of the file, > basically.
Exactly like this. Thanks a lot. :-) > Here are the soure code comments about that feature: > > ** Convert all arguments from mbcs (or unicode) to UTF-8. Then > ** search g.argv for arguments "--args FILENAME". If found, then > ** (1) remove the two arguments from g.argv > ** (2) Read the file FILENAME > ** (3) Use the contents of FILE to replace the two removed arguments: > ** (a) Ignore blank lines in the file > ** (b) Each non-empty line of the file is an argument, except > ** (c) If the line begins with "-" and contains a space, it is > broken > ** into two arguments at the space. I find the name "args" of the option a bit confusing, and I am not sure what the purpose of 3c) is. I assume it is some trivial heuristic to allow for -t ci in one line of the response file. But apart from that it looks exactly like what I need. Again, thanks for the pointer. Anyway I could have found this myself using the command line help or in the Wiki? Greetings, Stefan -- Stefan Bellon _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
