Re: Find all tags from a module...

[David Taylor]

Michal Kostrzewa wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Anybody knows how to see all tags used in a module? For a single file,
> command like "cvs status -v" shows all tags, the same command working on a
> module shows tags for every file in the module. I want to see only tags.
> File CVSROOT/val-tags shows what I want for the whole repository, but it
> cannot be checked out from remote repository.
> I find this problem quite important, because I can't simply check out a
> release numbered for example 0.9 (I often don't know naming convention of
> tags - it's perhaps rel_0.9 or rel-0-9 or something...) Such simple thing
> but confusing for me...
>
> thanks very much in advance,
> regards,
> Michal Kostrzewa
> address@hidden
>

If history logging is enabled, try:

cvs history -T -a -n <module>

According to http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_16.html#SEC134 it's
supposed to give you what you want (although you might want to pipe the
output to a filter like awk if you only want to see the tags).

I find the interface of the 'history' subcommand is demanding - even by
CVS standards. It requires so many options to generate a simple report (so
that I have to reread the manual for each use), that I generally just grep
$CVSROOT/CVSROOT/history instead.

dtayl