RE: Can we find all the branches on a module through some script?

[Thornley, David]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Nairn [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 4:34 PM
> To: 'address@hidden'; address@hidden
> Subject: RE: Can we find all the branches on a module through some
> script?
> 
> 
> 
> > From: jsk-intoto [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 9:25 PM
> 
> > based on the branch the user is working on. Can we obtain 
> the branches
> > existing on the repository thru some script mechanism?
> 
> cvs -nq log -h something | \
>         sed -n -e '/^symbolic/,/^keyword/ {
> /[1-9][0-9]*\.[0-9][0-9]*\.0\.[0-9][0-9]*$/ p
> }'
> 
> Will list all of the branches on something. The key thing 
> here is tags which
> have at least four numbers, and the next to last number is 0.
> It occurs to me that this will not get those special branches 
> created by
> imports.
> Jerry
> 
It's also possible to parse the output of "cvs stat -v", which has
lines in the form of

    TAGNAME       (branch: 1.2.14)
    TAGNAME1      (revision: 1.2.14.1)

In Perl, this would be something like
\s*(\w*)\s+\(branch: ([0-9.]*)
for branch names, with corresponding for revisions, with $1 being
the tag name and $2 being the rev number.