I am writing a test suites which use maven-scm-api to read/write to multiple scm types ( cvs, svn, and starteam) Remove command fails since it generates -m option which is illegal in CVS. We should completely ignore the message argument for CVS provider Here is the message [INFO] Working directory: /opt/proj/dtran/dev//integration/replay/replay-cvstest/target/replay-test/working-copy [INFO] Executing: cvs -z3 -f -d /opt/proj/dtran/dev//integration/replay/replay-cvstest/target/replay-test/repository -q remove -f -l -m '"remove Foo.java"' src/main/java/Foo.java Provider message ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The cvs command failed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Command output ---------------------------------------------------------------------- remove: invalid option – m Usage: cvs remove [-flR] [files...] -f Delete the file before removing it. -l Process this directory only (not recursive). -R Process directories recursively. (Specify the --help global option for a list of other help options)