[cvsnt] long command line

[Torsten Martinsen]

Tony Hoyle wrote:

>On Thu, 8 May 2003 18:02:20 +0200, "Hartmut Honisch" <hartmut_honisch at web.de>
>wrote:
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>>Hi everybody,
>>
>>when using TortoiseCVS, cvs command lines sometimes become longer than
>>Windows permits (4k on NT, 256 bytes on 9x). Is there an alternative way of
>>passing commands to cvs, e.g. make cvs read them from a file? If not, Tony,
>>what's you opinion about adding such a feature?
>>
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>It's not really practical - cvs relies on correct argc/argv parameters passed
>to main().
>
>There should be no reason for a command line to get that large at all...
>You'd have to individually select thousands of files to do that.  Tortoise has
>never done such a thing for me - it always correctly passes the
>module/directory names.
>
This can happen e.g. when you Add a large number of files - in this case 
you of course have to pass the individual filenames, not just the directory.

-Torsten