Re: cvs convenience scripts?

[Todd Denniston]

Mark D. Baushke wrote:
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> Terrence Brannon <address@hidden> writes:
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> > I would also like to list the last 10 branch tags created.
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> Branches are per file, not repository wide. So, nothing will get you
> this information without a full scan of the repository unless you use
> 'cvs rtag' to create the tags in which case, the 'cvs history' command
> should be able to help you.
cvs-exp.pl[1] seems to do an OK job figuring it out if you run it against your 
 whole repository, i.e., it works for me when I run it as:

`cvs-exp.pl --nolog`

I do however need to have at least one normal tag on each branch to see the 
branch tags as branch tags, IIRC.
It has been a while since I had a project with branches to use it on, but IIRC 
it puts the branch tags in '[]' pairs so you might be able to do something like:
`cvs-exp.pl --nolog|grep \[ | tail -10`

but I am not sure the branch tags are shown in chronological order.

[1] http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/code/cvs-exp/

> > I could write all of these, but I am sure that someone must've done so
> > already given CVS's age.
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> If you write general purpose utilities that you think would be useful,
> post them to address@hidden for possible inclusion in the contrib
> directory.