Hi folks- I'm new to the list, so I apologize if this has been asked. I perused the last few months of archived messages, but couldn't find the FAQ referred to on http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs. Anyway, here's what I'd like to be able to do. I want to have the equivalent functionality of a tag, but without actually writing to the repository. That is, I want to record the state of the revisions of all the files in my working directory so that I can revert to that state at a later time. But I don't want to modify the repository itself, for a couple of reasons:
1) The repository is shared by a large community, and the owners don't like the prospect of having a user (much less *many* users) creating more than one or two tags a year. 2) The functionality needs to be available from a shared testing account that has read-only anonymous access to the repository. Now, the straightforward solution would be to write a script, or a pair of scripts, that does a "cvs status", and parses the output and writes it out in a condensed form, and another that reads this condensed form and pulls out all the specified file revisions. However, before I go reinventing the wheel, I'd like to know if there exists such a tool already, possibly with more bells and whistles than I was planning to implement. Thanks in advance for any information you can provide. Chris > GE Global Research Center > >___________________________________________________________________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > Dr. Christopher R. Volpe, Ph.D. Computer Scientist Visualization and Computer Vision Lab Imaging Technologies Bldg KW, Room C215 P.O. Box 8, Schenectady, NY 12301 (518) 387-7766, Dial Comm: 8*833-7766, Fax: (518) 387-6981 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.crd.ge.com/~volpecr _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
