[cvsnt] Re: how to get the branch information before

[cvssteve at diablo-technologies.com]

Thanks Tony on your respective answers. Looks like I need to RTFM for most
of them...

Looks like I'll have to wrapper the client side for the cvs add stuff.

Is it documented anywhere what the structure of the /tmp/cvsserv... files
are, during an operation? There's a whole load of info about the internal
CVS files in Section 2.3 but is this it?

To date, I've grabbed a tgz of the files during the operation then tried to
figure it out from there. Is there a better way?

Many thanks for your advice so far.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org] On Behalf Of
Tony Hoyle
Sent: November 7, 2005 5:40 PM
To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
Subject: Re: [cvsnt] Re: how to get the branch information before

cvssteve at diablo-technologies.com wrote:
> a) The directory name used prior to altering the cvs repository 
>    when that directory is added 
>    Note: "cvs add <dir>" immediately modifies the repository 
>          (i.e. doesn't require a commit). Also aborting 
>          "cvs add <dir>" in precommand still leaves a CVS 
>          directory behind in the client side called "<dir>/CVS"

It's impossible to sensibly abort 'cvs add' in any cvs version at the 
moment - if anything it's a 2.6 enhancement as it'll require a few 
changes to the way add works (on the client side too, so you'd have to 
restrict to 2.6 clients when this happens).

> b) The file and branch name used for each file before it is commited.
>    Note: commitinfo and precommand do not provide this info 
>          (as Bo described below).

The tag information is in the current directory when commitinfo is 
called (I'm surprised Bo didn't mention this).

Bo Berglund wrote:
> Strangely it is hidden in another section in the cvs helpfile:
> 
> History Browsing/User-defined Logging/The taginfo file
> 
> Don't know why it has been relegated there, though....
> 
It always was there, even in the old cvshome manual...  it's not a commit
support file so isn't listed amongst them.