[cvsnt] Re: Urgent! Taginfo Scripts

[Bo Berglund]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 13:47:54 -0700, "Josh Skains" <JSkains at deltad.com>
wrote:

>Ack! My scripts stopped working! I just moved from cvs to cvsnt on a Linux box, and my perl script no longer works. Apparently the actual file/version entries are no longer handed down as a series of switches??? IE:
>
>$4 - File
>$5 - Version
>$6 - File
>$7 - Version
>
>???
>
>I need a quick help here or I have to jump back to cvs really quick...
>
>Thanks for any help,
>Joshua Skains

This was changed ages ago (or at least several years ago):
The file/revision pairs are no longer sent on the command line, they
come in on standard input instead.
This is because there is a limitation to the length of the command
line that will break tagging on large modules if using command line.



/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)