Re: Asking CVS if a repository/module/tag exists.

[Larry Jones]

John Daniel Doucette writes:
> 
> Given a <repository>, <module>, and <tag> is there a polite way to ask CVS 
> if the combination exists, without actually checking it out, that would 
> work in a make file.

How about:

        cvs -d <repository> rdiff -r <tag> -r <tag> <module>

-Larry Jones

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sent me that empty box with the sarcastic note saying she was just
checking to see if the Postal Service was still working. -- Calvin