Re: need help understanding underlying file format for cvs

[Derek Robert Price]

Ronald Petty wrote:

> I have another question about browsing over pserver.  I have seen hacks
> for it and whatnot, but what is the plan (if any) to make cvs have some
> protocol to do remote browsing.  And local browsing.  I know you can add
> modules and do cvs co -c but if you want to see the rest you have to
> know the actual file.  Maybe when you do cvs import it can add a module
> entry for you?  But that still doesn't help with local/remote file
> browsing.  I am doing it all in php and would hope one day I could do
> cvs ls or something.
>
> Thanks again everyone.
> Ron
>  

There are no current plans to implement `cvs ls' that I know of.

I, personally, would not be adverse, but I would like to see some 
discussion around any proposed patch to convince me that the approach is 
correct.  Feel free to evaluate and discuss the existing patches.

I think having import add entries to the modules file is the wrong way 
to go.

Derek

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