Re: How do you work out "automatically" the set of branches and the latest version of each branch within a CVS project ?

[Pierre Asselin]

"James Ball" <address@hidden> writes:

>I need to work out the set of branches within a given project, and the
>latest "version" expressed by the latest TAG for each branch within a
>project.  From what I've read there doesn't seem to be any obvious way
>to do this, which is puzzling given knowing what code you've got  is
>normally a given, or at least essential.

Yeah, isn't that a bummer!

>From a checked-out sandbox you can do a `cvs status -v README'
(substitute a random existing file for README) to list all the tags
and branches *on that one file*.  It's generally a bad idea to branch
individual files, so hopefully the list applies to the entire project.

Without a sandbox, I think you need a shell account on the machine
that holds the repository.  You do a plain RCS "rlog README,v" and
extract the branch list form the output.

To the list:  does cvsweb provide a solution to James' problem?

--
Pierre Asselin
Westminster, Colorado


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