Re: How to determine the working directory?

[Mark E. Hamilton]

address@hidden wrote:
> Is there a CVS command that I can issue that will give me the top-level
> directory from within /home/tabi/1639/source?  That is, something like:
>
> [tabi: ~/1639/source] cvs query directory
> /home/tabi/1639
> [tabi: ~/1639/source]
>
> The reason I do this is that I create a sandbox for each bug that I
> work on, and I often work on several bugs at once.  In this case, I'm
> working on bug 1639.  I would like to write some shell scripts that
> need to know where the top level directory of my sandbox is.  I've
> search the Internet and the man pages, and I see no way to do this.

Three possibilities come to mind:

1. Write your shell script to look for the top-level directory by 
searching up until it finds a directory that doesn't contain a 'CVS' 
sub-directory. The last directory with a 'CVS' sub-directory is your 
top-level.

2. If you have a hierarchy containing directories from different 
respositories, your script could diff the contents of the CVS/Root 
directory in the current directory with each ancestor CVS/Root file 
until it finds one that doesn't match. The last directory with a 
matching 'CVS/Root' file is your top-level.

3. You could simply look at the first path element of the line in the 
CVS/Repository file. That's normally the name of the top-level 
directory. (Note, however, that there's no guarantee that the format of 
this file will remain the same.)

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Mark E. Hamilton
Orion International Technologies, Inc.
Sandia National Laboratory, NM.
505-844-7666