Re: Checkout a file revision to stdout?

[Todd Denniston]

address@hidden wrote:
> 
> Is there any way to checkout a specific revision of a file to standard
> output, rather than creating a file?
> 
> The real reason for wanting to do this is to find which revision of a
> file a particular piece of text first appeared.
> 
> I wrote a script called rcsgrep a long time ago that checked out files
> on the main trunk only directly from the ,v file in the archive, and
> grepped through each one in turn.  So I could use that.  I just
> wondered if there was a better way.

if it is a line that was put in and never modified, then  `cvs annotate 
filename` might be useful. I have found that command to be a lot of fun.

I usually do something like: 
#say I have 15 revs in the file on the trunk
BOTTOM_BOUND=1
TOP_BOUND=15 
SEARCH_STRING="old address, from"
for i in `seq $BOTTOM_BOUND $TOP_BOUND`;do \
echo $i; \
cvs diff -u -r1.$BOTTOM_BOUND -r1.$i filename|grep "$SEARCH_STRING" \
;done

If you want it to bail after the first found rev then do an
`if cvs diff....|grep...
then
exit 0
fi`
instead of just the cvs diff line.

> 
> luke

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Todd Denniston
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