Re: revision/version numbers

2003-11-03 Thread Donald Sharp
Ick. I hate keyword expansions. The minute you ever merge between branches you have to deal with those keywords. donald On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 02:18:45PM +0100, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: Hello, On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 04:53:33PM -0500, Robert Clark wrote: If you are not too worried a

RE: revision/version numbers

2003-11-03 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Todd Denniston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim.Hyslop wrote: echo ^RCS file:filerev echo ^revision filerev cvs log -rCURRENT_TAG | grep -f filerev I think the above may give you some false positives, the files in the Attic (dead don't have the tag) lists all revs in the

Re: revision/version numbers

2003-11-03 Thread Todd Denniston
Jim.Hyslop wrote: Katherine King [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP Now, having said all that, if they want to see if something's changed, they can use the diff command: cvs diff -rPREVIOUS_TAG -rCURRENT_TAG filename If diff says nothing, then the file has not changed. To get

Re: revision/version numbers

2003-11-03 Thread Jamie Wellnitz
Well cvs up -kk -j branch-tag-1 -j branch-tag-2 seems to work okay for me to avoid problems with merging the keywords (I think we've only used $Id$, though). -- Jamie Wellnitz On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:05:49AM -0500, Donald Sharp wrote: Ick. I hate keyword expansions. The minute you ever

revision/version numbers

2003-10-31 Thread Katherine King
Hi, I am pretty much a beginner to CVS, but somehow becoming the expert on the team, and this is now causing me to need to ask for some help. We have a CVS repository, and we are working with branches and tags, no problem. But we need a little more information about revision numbers for the

Re: revision/version numbers

2003-10-31 Thread Donald Sharp
Why do you need this? What is important is the label! If you can't convince them that it's not terribly important pull a workspace over the release label and do a cvs status -R and parse the output. donald On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 03:56:47PM -0500, Katherine King wrote: Hi, I am pretty much

RE: revision/version numbers

2003-10-31 Thread Katherine King
: Donald Sharp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: October 31, 2003 4:11 PM Subject: Re: revision/version numbers Why do you need this? What is important is the label! If you can't convince them that it's not terribly important pull a workspace over the release label and do a cvs status -R and parse

RE: revision/version numbers

2003-10-31 Thread Bert Robbins
: revision/version numbers Why do you need this? What is important is the label! If you can't convince them that it's not terribly important pull a workspace over the release label and do a cvs status -R and parse the output. donald On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 03:56:47PM -0500, Katherine

Re: revision/version numbers

2003-10-31 Thread Donald Sharp
: Re: revision/version numbers Why do you need this? What is important is the label! If you can't convince them that it's not terribly important pull a workspace over the release label and do a cvs status -R and parse the output. donald On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 03:56:47PM -0500, Katherine

Re: revision/version numbers

2003-10-31 Thread Donald Sharp
PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: revision/version numbers Why do you need this? What is important is the label! If you can't convince them that it's not terribly important pull a workspace over the release label and do a cvs status -R and parse the output. donald On Fri, Oct 31, 2003

RE: revision/version numbers

2003-10-31 Thread Katherine King
automatically, with a script, this will help. :) -Original Message- From: Donald Sharp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: October 31, 2003 4:25 PM To: Katherine King Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: revision/version numbers How does this confirm that you are or aren't using a old version

Re: revision/version numbers

2003-10-31 Thread Paul Sander
Labels are not immutable; they can be moved around. Some shops deliberately use floating labels, e.g. to identify the latest sources eligible for build. This cuts down on clutter under several methodologies. Under such conditions, pulling from a specific (floating) label may NOT pull the

RE: revision/version numbers

2003-10-31 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Katherine King [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It doesn't as such - the tester has to trust us that far, but this is still something that they are demanding. I'm still not clear *why* these testers - who you said earlier are not programmers - have to verify whether a file has actually changed

Re: revision/version numbers

2003-10-31 Thread Terrence Enger
At 16:10 2003-10-31 -0500, Donald Sharp wrote: Why do you need this? What is important is the label! If you can't convince them that it's not terribly important pull a workspace over the release label and do a cvs status -R and parse the output. Or, list the various CVS/Entries files. Let

RE: revision/version numbers

2003-10-31 Thread Jim.Hyslop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Labels are not immutable; they can be moved around. Some shops deliberately use floating labels, e.g. to identify the latest sources eligible for build. Then the label should clearly indicate it's the latest version. A version handed off to

Labels? (Was: Re: revision/version numbers)

2003-10-31 Thread Alan Dayley
Jim.Hyslop wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Labels are not immutable; they can be moved around. Some --[clip]-- Then the label should clearly indicate it's the latest version. A version handed off to QA is not the latest version, and should have a unique label.

Re: Labels? (Was: Re: revision/version numbers)

2003-10-31 Thread Paul Sander
--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jim.Hyslop wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Labels are not immutable; they can be moved around. Some --[clip]-- Then the label should clearly indicate it's the latest version. A version handed off to QA is not the latest

RE: revision/version numbers

2003-10-31 Thread Paul Sander
--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Labels are not immutable; they can be moved around. Some shops deliberately use floating labels, e.g. to identify the latest sources eligible for build. Then the label should clearly indicate it's

RE: revision/version numbers

2003-10-31 Thread Robert Clark
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 16:31, Katherine King wrote: It doesn't as such - the tester has to trust us that far, but this is still something that they are demanding. It came up today because we had to do a deploy from a branch (most are off the main branch). If it is possible to extract the