Re: Identifying base version-no of all files in a branch

[Larry Jones]

Arthur Barrett writes:
> 
> It's EASY to obtain the base revision number - it's hardcoded in the
> branch number.

Exactly (which is why it's nothing like trying to intuit the date/time
the branch was created).  For generality, you need to support normal RCS
branches in addition to CVS magic branches, but that's just a small
detail.

> but since mthread/rjkumr is writing an Eclipse extension, a
> list of version numbers is all that is needed isn't it?

Correct, and that's what there's no easy way to do, you have to parse
the output from ``status -v'' or ``log'', and that's not trivial.
-- 
Larry Jones

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