--- bin/repoman	(revision 3055)
+++ bin/repoman	(working copy)
@@ -1507,6 +1507,8 @@ 
 	if isCvs:
 		mycvstree=cvstree.getentries("./",recursive=1)
 		mychanged=cvstree.findchanged(mycvstree,recursive=1,basedir="./")
+		for x in [file for file in mychanged if 'Manifest' in file]:
+			mychanged.remove(x)
 		mynew=cvstree.findnew(mycvstree,recursive=1,basedir="./")
 		myremoved=cvstree.findremoved(mycvstree,recursive=1,basedir="./")
 		if not (mychanged or mynew or myremoved):
@@ -1562,10 +1564,10 @@ 
 		print
 
 		if "--pretend" in myoptions:
-			print "(/usr/bin/cvs -q commit -F "+commitmessagefile+")"
+			print "(/usr/bin/cvs -q commit "+string.join(myupdates," ")+" -F "+commitmessagefile+")"
 			retval=0
 		else:
-			retval=os.system("/usr/bin/cvs -q commit -F "+commitmessagefile)
+			retval=os.system("/usr/bin/cvs -q commit "+string.join(myupdates, " ")+" -F "+commitmessagefile)
 		if retval:
 			print "!!! Exiting on cvs (shell) error code:",retval
 			sys.exit(retval)