[cvsnt] Re: Possible to read cvs version of client from the loginfo script?

[Bo Berglund]

On Sat, 01 Apr 2006 11:01:26 +0100, Tony Hoyle
<tony.hoyle at march-hare.com> wrote:

>Bo Berglund wrote:
>> I just realized that it would be convenient to log the version of cvs
>> the client is using when he executes a commit operation on a CVSNT
>> repository.
>> Is there any way CVSNT can know this currently (is it part of the
>> client/server exchange)?
>> If it is could it be made available as a CVSNT "environment variable"
>> like $CLIENTVERSION or similar?
>> 
>It's there in the audit log for cvsnt clients... older clients didn't 
>send this information (I've thought of doing fingerprinting to work out 
>the client versions but never actually gone very far with it).
>
>This information is passed to the trigger libraries and available as %i 
>in the script parser.
>

Nice, now I just have to figure out a way to embed it into CVSMailer
without breaking existing setups...
Sample output from %i in precommand:
CVSNT 2.5.01 (Travis) Build 2025 (cvsgui active)



/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)