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Re: additional fields


From: Frederic Brehm
Subject: Re: additional fields
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 08:12:21 -0400

At 06:30 AM 6/18/2003, Patrick  Kennedy wrote:
Is it possible to add custom fields to the repository?

No. But CVS is open source so you can extend it yourself if you are inclined.



I want to attach some meta data (eg: description, synopsis etc) to files in
the repository,

If you want to keep metadata about files you can add a file (metadata.txt or something) that and keep the information in there. It's not ideal but periodic review can catch problems.



Secondly, can the revision field by a string or does it need to be an
auto-incrementing number?

Don't mess with the revision number (1.n). That's the property of CVS.

Use tags (cvs tag). They can be strings, subject to certain restrictions.



Fred

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