RE: verifymsg script

[Jim.Hyslop]

address@hidden wrote:
> I finally tried this, and the script just echoes
> out the lines in my rcstemplate file that do not
> begin with "CVS". So how can I modify my rcstemplate
> file to contain the branch tag? Adding the $Name$
> keyword did NOT do it of course.
Well, it's a bit ugly, but here's a possibility:

verifymsg runs in the local directory, or (I think - I haven't checked this
part) in a copy of the workspace if you're doing client/server. This means
the CVS/Entries file is available. You could add something like this to your
verifymsg scripts:

cut -d/ -f2,6 CVS/Entries | grep -E '/T' | sed 's@/T@, CVS tag: @' >>$1

This pulls all the lines from CVS/Entries that have a tag associated with
the file, and appends them to the checkin message in the form "[filename],
CVS tag: [tag]" You can rework this to append "(none)" if there is no tag.
You'll also have to add code to recurse into subdirectories.

Make sure the RereadLogAfterVerify option in CVSROOT/config is not disabled.

One drawbacks is, you have no way of knowing which files the message applies
to, so you'll have to write all the tags to the log message. For example, if
your directory tree contains 100 files, and you check in only one file, the
log message will have 100 file names mentioned in it.

-- 
Jim Hyslop
Senior Software Designer
Leitch Technology International Inc. ( http://www.leitch.com )
Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal ( http://www.cuj.com/experts )