RE: Keeping only latest version of a file in repository

[Arthur Barrett]

Joachim,

I think everones suggestions at better ways of handling the build
process are good.  Also the overhead in versioning your PNG files
(especially with CVSNT's -kB) is quite low.

But if you really really want to mimic this VSS behavious read on.

>I'll check the cvs admin thing.

You want cvs admin -o ::rev

To automate it create a perl script and fire it off from Loginfo, eg:
Module-name/directory-of-png truncatefiles.pl $CVSROOT %{sVv}

Eg: the perl script truncatefiles.pl will get these parameters:
/myrepo Logo.png,1.1,1.2 product1.png,1.3,1.4 product2.png.c,1.12,1.13

Your perl script then needs to (psuedocode):
cvs -d $1 admin -o ::rev$3 $2
cvs -d $1 admin -o ::rev$6 $5
cvs -d $1 admin -o ::rev$9 $8

Test carefully...  

And don't ask me for a clearer example - I avoid perl and only write C
for money ;)

Regards,


Arthur