[M3devel] Need CVS help fixing log message

[Olaf Wagner]

Quoting "Rodney M. Bates" <rodney.bates at wichita.edu>:

> I committed a bunch of files and mistakenly used -m when I should
> have used -F.  The result is, the log message is a local path to
> a file.  My CVS book shows a -m option to cvs admin to repair log
> messages, but nothing that does what the -F option to commit does.
> My log message has several lines.  How can I fix the logs?  Is there
> an equivalent to admin -F?  Will the -m accept newlines between the
> quotes?

Use something like

cvs admin -m1.24:'line 1
line 2
line 3' fn

Note that it is based on the RCS revision; so you've got to
do it for each file with the correct revision number.

Olaf
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