Hi,
Is it possible to watch the history of a CVS project (like "cvs log")
without having a working directory of the project? I couldn't figure it out
from the Cederqvist manual; it seems to me that logically there should be no
need for a working copy of a project in order to just view the history and
the tags - the history is in the files which are stored in the repository,
so why should we need to check-out a project to see its history? When I run
"cvs log", and the current directory does not have a CVS subdirectory in it,
it tells me:
cvs [log aborted]: there is no version here; run 'cvs checkout'
first
To be more precise, I need to write a script which extracts (i.e., finds)
the latest tags of a large list of CVS projects. I do not want to check-out
all these projects just for the purpose of extracting the tags, since this
would take a very long time, and is logically not needed. So, how can I do
that?
And one more question - this mailing list has thousands of questions and
answers, and I cannot go over all of them to see there are already answers
to my CVS questions there. Is there a "good" way of searching this mailing
list? In egroups, there's a "search" button, but it seems to be very
limited, a very simple search.
Thanks,
Shlomo
