[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a CVS command that I can issue that will give me the top-level
directory from within /home/tabi/1639/source? That is, something like:
[tabi: ~/1639/source] cvs query directory
/home/tabi/1639
[tabi: ~/1639/source]
The reason I do this is that I create a sandbox for each bug that I
work on, and I often work on several bugs at once. In this case, I'm
working on bug 1639. I would like to write some shell scripts that
need to know where the top level directory of my sandbox is. I've
search the Internet and the man pages, and I see no way to do this.
Three possibilities come to mind:
1. Write your shell script to look for the top-level directory by
searching up until it finds a directory that doesn't contain a 'CVS'
sub-directory. The last directory with a 'CVS' sub-directory is your
top-level.
2. If you have a hierarchy containing directories from different
respositories, your script could diff the contents of the CVS/Root
directory in the current directory with each ancestor CVS/Root file
until it finds one that doesn't match. The last directory with a
matching 'CVS/Root' file is your top-level.
3. You could simply look at the first path element of the line in the
CVS/Repository file. That's normally the name of the top-level
directory. (Note, however, that there's no guarantee that the format of
this file will remain the same.)
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Mark E. Hamilton
Orion International Technologies, Inc.
Sandia National Laboratory, NM.
505-844-7666
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