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RE: very wierd commit from emacs (or ntemacs) problem
From: |
Chuck . Irvine |
Subject: |
RE: very wierd commit from emacs (or ntemacs) problem |
Date: |
Mon, 16 Apr 2001 14:12:39 -0500 |
>
> I suspect that the problem is with quoting the log message that is
> passed to CVS. Are you sure that Emacs invokes Bash as the shell?
> What is your SHELL variable set to?
Inside my .emacs, I set $SHELL to bash, i.e.:
(setenv "SHELL" "bash")
>
> > My version info is:
> >
> > ntemacs 20.7.1
> > winnt 4.0
> > cvs 1.11
> > cygwin bash 2.04.7(2)-release (i686-pc-cygwin)
>
> Was this version of CVS compiled with Cygwin? If not, there might be
> conflicts between how Emacs quotes arguments, how Bash unquotes them,
> and how CVS interprets them.
>
It is the version of cvs that comes precompiled with cygwin.
Thanks
Chuck