Re: Add Version/Date When Checking In File

[Todd Denniston]

Aaron Bono wrote:
> On 1/18/07, Robert Clark <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Thursday January 18, 2007 11:57, "Aaron Bono" <address@hidden>
> > wrote:
> > > We want to add the CVS version of a file, a time stamp of when the
> > > file is checked in and the user who checked the file in to all
> > > source code files.
> >
> > Just out of morbid curiosity: why would you want to do such a thing?
> > All that information is already stored in the repository by CVS when
> > you commit the file.
>
> It helps when tracing back a file from production to it's source.  Once the
> files are checked out and bundled for deployment, there is no other way to
> tell what version of each file we are using on the production box without
> doing some detective work.

<SNIP>
You might also be able to get what you need by one of the following methods:

A) When bundling for deployment, also run `cvs2cl -r -t`[1] in the base 
directory of the checkout and use one ChangeLog for the whole of the package.

B) When bundling for deployment, also run `cvs2cl -r -t -d` in the base 
directory of the checkout so you have a ChangeLog for the files in each 
directory in the directory where those files are.

C) When bundling for deployment, have a build target that runs `cvs2cl -r -t 
-f filename.cl filename` for each file, so that you ChangeLog for each 
individual file.

If you release from branches the '-F branchname --no-ancestors' options might 
be useful.

You also may wish to use the RCS keyword $Id:$ so that folks can match the 
version of each file they received with the versions listed in the ChangeLog.

following thread may be of interest to you as well:
http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg30882.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg30901.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg30930.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg33449.html


[1] http://www.red-bean.com/cvs2cl/
   If you happen to be running a version of CVSNT, there is a cvs2cl.py which 
at least at one time took the same options and gave similar results to the 
perl cvs2cl.


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Todd Denniston
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