Re: Is there any way to tell CVS update to show file revisions

[Todd Denniston]

Arthur Barrett wrote, On 08/26/2008 11:17 PM:
> >  I forgot to mention that we're a Windows shop and 
> > use WinCVS and CVSNT mostly
>
> There are separate newsgroups for both CVSNT and WinCVS - check the web
> sites for the links or look at the bottom of this e-mail after my
> signature.  Todd knows a lot about 'non-gnu CVS' but nothing much about
> CVSNT, 

I'm hurt ... you know me too well :).
Though pretty much everything the normal cvs does, CVSNT does as well, so in 
general my answers (using cvs commands) should work.  The problem comes when I 
suggest running those commands inside of Unix scripts, which I did for my 
previous answer.

> and 'non-gnu CVS' is generally used on unix so the answers you
> get here will generally rely on CVS only commands and also rely on unix
> commands like grep and sed and awk.
>
> > , so when I do an update or pull based on a 
> > label or tag, I get a very crude list of files 
> > with no details and the detail is in WinCVS gui. 
> > So I downloaded the free standing cvs.exe 
>
> There is already a cvs.exe on your system before you downloaded another
> - you can even see WinCVS executing the cvs.exe commands in the command
> window.  Cvs.exe is usually in the same folder as WinCVS (but does not
> need to be).

IIRC, CVSNT (or wincvs) includes a copy of cvs2cl.py.  I would suggest running 
it with the options -r -t and see if it gives you _closer_ to what you want 
with out having to write any other scripts (assuming some one on the CVSNT 
list has not given you a CVSNT command to get the answers yet).  If the person 
who has been maintaining cvs2cl.py is keeping up with the perl version, you 
may be able to have cvs2cl.py output an XML file that you can parse in MANY ways.

> > and gnu command tools and I may be able to write 
> > use your scripts to get what I need. 
>
> Except you probably do not need those scripts - if you just ask on the
> correct newsgroup or read the cvsnt manual you will find that CVSNT will
> provide a list of file revisions very easily, eg (I haven't really
> looked at your question so this is just a guess and no substitute for
> asking in the correct place):
>
> cvs rls -lq path/on/server
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