Re: Reports generation in CVS

[Frederic Brehm]

At 09:02 AM 6/2/2004, Ramanuj Singh wrote:
> name of branch or tag, date on which it was created, the author name and 
> the name of the module

CVS stores that information in the history file (cvs history -aT). A script 
that parses the output has to be aware that individual files can be tagged, 
not just modules.

If you need more information than that, then your best bet is to collect 
the information yourself in a format that is easy for report generation. 
Write a script that developers will use for tagging. Collect the 
information you need along with the tag they use. Save the information in a 
convenient place. Generate your report from that data.

One method that I use is to have a special module named "scm" that contains 
scripts for "tag", "release", and other configuration management 
operations. I teach the developers to use the scripts instead of the raw 
CVS commands. It's easy to get them to use the scripts if you make the 
scripts easy to use. The data gets appended to a file within the module and 
then the file is committed to the repository.

Fred

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