Re: revision/version numbers

[Terrence Enger]

At 16:10 2003-10-31 -0500, Donald Sharp wrote:
> Why do you need this?  What is important is the label!
>
> If you can't convince them that it's not terribly important
> pull a workspace over the release label and do a cvs status -R
> and parse the output.

Or, list the various CVS/Entries files.  Let the QA team do
their own parsing.

As an additional inducement to help your QA team give up on
this request, show them how easy it is to see in detail the
changes between two tags.

Terry.


>
> donald
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 03:56:47PM -0500, Katherine King wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am pretty much a beginner to CVS, but somehow "becoming" the expert
on the
> > team, and this is now causing me to need to ask for some help.  We have a
> > CVS repository, and we are working with branches and tags, no problem.
But
> > we need a little more information about revision numbers for the quality
> > assurance team.  I have been able to get this for the main branch by
locking
> > the tree - this shows the version/revision numbers (cvs admin -l), but I
> > need the version/revision numbers for all the files with a certain tag.
 Is
> > there a way to do this?
> > 
> > Sorry if this is a silly question, but I haven't been able to find it.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Kate