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Re: Symbolic tag information after a 'cvs release'


From: Sonam Chauhan
Subject: Re: Symbolic tag information after a 'cvs release'
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 13:18:24 +1000
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From what I understand, the problem we have is that with
'release'-ed code, there really isn't a quick way to log into, say
the live machine, and verify which branch was released. The only way
to do this is to look for some changes to the code, that we know
exist only in the latest merged branch.


Look in the history file, with 'cvs history'. One thing 'cvs release'
does is put an entry there.

You do need a higher-level process than just the cvs commands provide
to manage a full project. You can automate some of that with scripts,
or do it manually with emails or another tool.



Hmm, all we want is to have the symbolic tag of the CVS version released, to be stored in a file on the release server. This is so that deployment verification can be automated across a cluster.

Have you heard of a CVS variable ( called, say, "$tag$" ? :) that holds the tag, if any, assigned to the the main branch.

I was thinking of using variable replacement, but the only variables seem to be RCS ones.

Sonam
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