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Re: FW: Symbolic tag information after a 'cvs release'
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Frederic Brehm |
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Re: FW: Symbolic tag information after a 'cvs release' |
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Mon, 8 Apr 2002 09:03:29 -0400 |
At 17:03 +1000 4/8/02, Sonam Chauhan wrote:
Sorry - Having never done *software* releases" with CVS myself, I
misphrased my query. What I really meant was 'cvs export'. In other
words, we do a 'cvs export' of a tagged branch as part of our
release process. I wanted to capture the tag name of the
cvs-*exported* branch by processing a CVS variable in a file. This
does not seem possible.
I think that $Name$ is what you need.
Create a dummy module for testing. Create a file "foo" with the
$Name$ string in the module. Use
cvs tag TEST_TAG foo
cvs export -r TEST_TAG dummy_module
Look at the exported file. The string should now be $Name: TEST_TAG$
I am not sure if this works with a branch tag. Use a regular tag
derived from the branch tag. For example, if you want to export
branch "ABCD" today, you could, for example, tag the module with
"ABCD_020408"
Fred
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