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Re: How to get list of tags?
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Derek R. Price |
Subject: |
Re: How to get list of tags? |
Date: |
Wed, 23 May 2001 11:08:50 -0400 |
"A.R. (Tom) Peters" wrote:
> On Tue, 22 May 2001, Derek R. Price wrote:
>
> > "A.R. (Tom) Peters" wrote:
>
> > > I second that. I inherited a source repository where people have been
> > > using CVS but didn't really know how (well, maybe I don't either; and yes,
> > > I have read the Coriolis book).
> > > I like to see all the tags that have been applied to a module. `cvs
> > > history -a -T` does not give what I want.
> > > - it shows lots of tags not related to the module I want
> > > - it does not show tags that I recently applied (or tried to...)
> > > - each tag occurs numerous times
> > > - it does not show if a tag is a sticky tag or a branch tag, which is of
> > > vital importance.
> >
> > http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_8.html#SEC75
> >
> > > By the way, the output of `cvs history` is sub-optimal. I could not find
> > > documentation of the actual meaning of all the columns with this
> > > particular command.
> >
> > This information is there. There is a link to a thorough description of
> > the history command in the above.
>
> I'm sorry, I've perused that section and its links, but I did NOT find any
> description of the meaning of the OUTPUT of the `cvs history` commands, in
> particular not on how to interpret the output with the "-T" option.
Well, you missed at least one link:
http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_16.html#SEC134
> Any specific information, especially on how to determine if a tag is
> sticky or a branch tag, would be welcome.
Sticky tags are only relevant to the repository.
T 2001-01-05 17:56 +0000 scjones foo [test:A]
T operation (tag)
2001-01-05 17:56 date time
+0000 I don't recall - may be a general
line number change field
scjones user who performed action
foo module tagged
[test:A] see below
test tagname arg
A A|D|tagname where
A add
D delete
tagname tag applied to (copy/branch operation,
e.g. 'rtag -roldtag test' would produce
[test:oldtag])
Documentation patches gladly accepted.
Derek
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- How to get list of tags?, Shailesh Garg, 2001/05/21
- Re: How to get list of tags?, A.R. (Tom) Peters, 2001/05/22
- Re: How to get list of tags?, Derek R. Price, 2001/05/22
- Re: How to get list of tags?, A.R. (Tom) Peters, 2001/05/22
- Re: How to get list of tags?,
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- Re: How to get list of tags?, Larry Jones, 2001/05/23
- Re: How to get list of tags?, Derek R. Price, 2001/05/23
- Re: How to get list of tags?, Larry Jones, 2001/05/23
- Re: How to get list of tags?, Derek R. Price, 2001/05/23
- Re: How to get list of tags?, A.R. (Tom) Peters, 2001/05/23
- Re: How to get list of tags?, Larry Jones, 2001/05/23
- Re: How to get list of tags?, A.R. (Tom) Peters, 2001/05/23
- Re: How to get list of tags?, Larry Jones, 2001/05/23