Re: Find all tags from a module...

[Larry Jones]

Michal Kostrzewa writes:
> 
> Anybody knows how to see all tags used in a module?

CVS doesn't track tags by module, only by file.

> File CVSROOT/val-tags shows what I want for the whole repository, but it 
> cannot be checked out from remote repository.

No, it doesn't.  val-tags is a cache that contains tags that CVS has
looked up recently.  It can not be relied upon to contain all the tags
in the repository.

> I find this problem quite important, because I can't simply check out a 
> release numbered for example 0.9 (I often don't know naming convention of 
> tags - it's perhaps rel_0.9 or rel-0-9 or something...) Such simple thing 
> but confusing for me... 

So pick a representative file and use status -v or log to get a list of
tags.

-Larry Jones

I wonder if I can grow fangs when my baby teeth fall out. -- Calvin