Re: branching dates

[Alexander Taler]

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Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:06:17 EST

  >>>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Hyslop <address@hidden> writes:
  Jim> [determining date range for a branch creation] You'll have to do all
  Jim> this manually, there is no tool to do this.

  >> Actually, one of the LibCVS Perl scripts includes code which does this.
  >> If you'd like to try it, I'd be happy to help.

  Jim> Well, I was going to mention that, but last time this topic came up you
  Jim> said something about it being very large (plus I didn't want to steal
  Jim> your thunder ;-)

why thank you :)  It is a lot of code, but easily installable
thanks to the Perl CPAN module support.

  Jim> BTW, any chance the portion of the code that does this could be
  Jim> refactored out into a separate script that can be put into the contrib/
  Jim> directory?

Not efficiently.  It's written on top of the LibCVS objects which
present a very different view of the contents of the cvs
repository than a raw cvs log output.

While we're on this topic, the real problem with determining tag
date is that tags can be moved or can be applied to a working
directory where everything isn't properly up-to-date.

Alex

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