Re: Retrieve last TAG name

[Paul Sander]

Alternatively, you could adopt a naming convention such that the sort  
order of the tags is the same as the creation order, and be sure to  
apply each tag to a placeholder file.  Then you can obtain the latest  
tag from the placeholder file's log easily in a script.

On Mar 4, 2010, at 8:24 AM, Mark D. Baushke wrote:

> Rapthor <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > is there a way to retrieve the name of the latest CVS-Tag in the
> > repository?
>
> No. Tags are kept per file. A tag used on one file may or may not be
> related to some other file in the repository.
>
> > Let's say I tagged a directory including all files with a version
> > VERSION_1_0_2_3. How do I retrieve this name via CVS command?
>
> You will see tags listed when you do a 'cvs log' or 'cvs rlog'  
> command.
>
> To get the most recent, you would need to look at the date of the
> revision for each tag perfile and sort by that date to find the most
> recently committed delta with an associated tag name.
>
>         -- Mark