Re: Files beginning with a minus sign

2003-03-31 Thread Mike Castle
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Franky Van Liedekerke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wanted to delete the file. Marking the file for deletion was ok, but the commit is not working. The cvs commit command at first complained about this file with unknown option, so I called cvs like this:

Re: Files beginning with a minus sign

2003-03-28 Thread Ronald Petty
What about cvs commit -filename.txt ? or cvs commit ./-filename.txt Ron On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 12:14, Eric Siegerman wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 11:15:43AM +, Franky Van Liedekerke wrote: cvs commit -m message -- -filename.txt So now the cvs command itself ws happy, but the

RE: Files beginning with a minus sign

2003-03-28 Thread Mike Ayers
From: Franky Van Liedekerke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 3:07 AM So now the cvs command itself ws happy, but the server complains with: up-to-date check failed for -filename.txt First do `cvs update -filename.txt` and see what that says. My testing

Re: Files beginning with a minus sign

2003-03-28 Thread Franky Van Liedekerke
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:13:59 -0800 Mike Ayers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Franky Van Liedekerke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 3:07 AM So now the cvs command itself ws happy, but the server complains with: up-to-date check failed for -filename.txt

RE: Files beginning with a minus sign

2003-03-28 Thread Mike Ayers
From: Franky Van Liedekerke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 11:51 AM The file was already checked out from cvs, so it is commited. Sound logic there. But now I want to delete it, and it seems modifying the repository by hand is the only way to do it ...

Re: Files beginning with a minus sign

2003-03-28 Thread Larry Jones
Franky Van Liedekerke writes: So now the cvs command itself ws happy, but the server complains with: up-to-date check failed for -filename.txt I think your best bet will be to make an innocuous change to another file and then do: cvs ci otherfile -filtename.txt I believe I have

Re: Files beginning with a minus sign

2003-03-28 Thread Kaz Kylheku
On 28 Mar 2003, Ronald Petty wrote: What about cvs commit -filename.txt The characters are not part of a command line argument; they are just lexical syntax processed by the shell, affecting how it tokenizes the command line, and also affects the semantics of certain expansions. For