Re: Add Version/Date When Checking In File

[Aaron Bono]

I will be doing a lot to automate my builds in the coming months so I will have to try out these techniques.

Thanks for all the options and input.

-Aaron

On 1/19/07, Todd Denniston
 <address@hidden> wrote:

Aaron Bono wrote:
> On 1/18/07, Robert Clark <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> On Thursday January 18, 2007 11:57, "Aaron Bono" < address@hidden>
>> wrote:
>> > We want to add the CVS version of a file, a time stamp of when the
>> > file is checked in and the user who checked the file in to all
>> > source code files.
>>
>> Just out of morbid curiosity: why would you want to do such a thing?
>> All that information is already stored in the repository by CVS when
>> you commit the file.
>>
>
> It helps when tracing back a file from production to it's source.  Once the
> files are checked out and bundled for deployment, there is no other way to
> tell what version of each file we are using on the production box without
> doing some detective work.

<SNIP>
You might also be able to get what you need by one of the following methods:

A) When bundling for deployment, also run `cvs2cl -r -t`[1] in the base
directory of the checkout and use one ChangeLog for the whole of the package.

B) When bundling for deployment, also run `cvs2cl -r -t -d` in the base
directory of the checkout so you have a ChangeLog for the files in each
directory in the directory where those files are.

C) When bundling for deployment, have a build target that runs `cvs2cl -r -t
-f filename.cl filename` for each file, so that you ChangeLog for each
individual file.

If you release from branches the '-F branchname --no-ancestors' options might
be useful.

You also may wish to use the RCS keyword $Id:$ so that folks can match the
version of each file they received with the versions listed in the ChangeLog.

following thread may be of interest to you as well:
http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg30882.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg30901.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg30930.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg33449.html


[1] http://www.red-bean.com/cvs2cl/
    If you happen to be running a version of CVSNT, there is a cvs2cl.py which
at least at one time took the same options and gave similar results to the
perl cvs2cl.


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Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter

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