Re: Input files

[Todd Denniston]

Hamid Ghassemi wrote:
> 
> Can CVS use an input file in place of options for each individual file.
> 
> We have a list of files that makes up a recipe of what source code is
> needed to make a product. 
suggestion read 
http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.6/cvs_4.html#SEC48
it tells you that cvs can internalize the recipe so you do not have to even
have a separate file with the information in it.

> I would like to use this file as a input to a
> CVS command to do checkouts, tag, commit, etc.

There is no interface in cvs to do it directly, however you could build a
script (language of your choice) to make an interface. I would have it do
something like the following.

$recipe_version=v_1_1 /*maps to v1.1 ?*/
while $more_files_in_input.txt
do
  $line = read line from input.txt
  $filename=$line.$1
  $rcsversion=$line.$2 /* humans should ignore cvs use of rcs version numbers,
and use tags */

  cvs tag -r $rcsversion $recipe_version $filename
done
echo "to get the input.txt version back for rebuild $recipe_version type \`cvs
checkout -r$recipe_version module\` in an appropriate directory."
echo "in the mean time club the CM person until they understand "
echo "how to use cvs tag or cvs rtag on the whole baseline"
echo " and just keep input.txt as an artifact of the past. :) "
echo " http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.6/cvs_4.html#SEC48 "

see the following for a bash script that does someething like you want
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2003-03/msg00251.html
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2003-03/msg00252.html

> 
> Here is an example
> 
> Input file input.rxt:
> /foo/foo.c  1.1
> /foo/abc.h  1.4
> 
> Command line
> 
> Cvs co @input.txt
> Or
> CVS co < input.txt
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Hamid
>