Re: followup to tag question posted 5/11/01

[Larry Jones]

Lance Murayama writes:
> 
> Would it be possible to get the information regarding the
> person who created a tag through the taginfo file by
> passing the information to a script for reporting?

Yes, that's certainly possible.  Note, however, that rtag has a -n
option that suppresses the taginfo script.  Whether that's a problem or
not is up to you.

> tried several iterations of this but failed in all attempts.
> The failures occur before executing the script so I am not
> sure if it is possible to use the syntax above. I am hoping
> to get a tip as in "try this..." or "give it up it's hopeless."

To supplement the example in the manual, something like:

        ALL $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/loggit $USER

should work (where loggit is the script shown in the manual).

http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_8.html#SEC78

-Larry Jones

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