Re: Obtaining a list of all projects in CVS

[Todd Denniston]

"Derek R. Price" wrote:
> 
> Antony Stace wrote:
> 
> > Is there a command which will list information about all the projects in
> > the CVS repository?  Ie, what projects exist, what files are being
> > worked on in each project, etc.  Or do I need to write a script to get
> > this type of info?
> 
> There isn't one.  'cvs co -c' and 'cvs co -s' will work if the modules
> admin file is up to date but you shouldn't set up a modules file for this
> reason.
> 
> The easiest way is to use 'ls' in the toplevel of the repo if you have
> access.
> 
> You can try the following to get a complete file list, and you might be
> able to deduce the project list from that:
> 
>      cvs -nq rdiff -s -D"Jan 1, 1970" . |awk '{print $2}'
> 
> There's also a wrapper script floating aroud that I'm told does what you
> ask.  Search the mail archives.
> 
> Derek
> 
along the same lines to get the modules alone
 cvs -n checkout -p CVSROOT/modules
 seems to work even though I do not have direct (not a mounted file system) 
access
to the cvs repo.

i.e. if you do 
cvs -d :pserver:address@hidden:/home2/cvsroot login
get password from http://www.cvshome.org/dev/index.html#anon
cvs -d :pserver:address@hidden:/home2/cvsroot -n checkout -p
CVSROOT/modules
you get to see the cvs modules file