Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 09:00:12 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Timmons <skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu> To: Gareth McCaughan <gjm11@dpmms.cam.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSup tags Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970319085348.15601A-100000@opus.cts.cwu.edu> In-Reply-To: <E0w7J5S-0006TT-00@g.pet.cam.ac.uk>
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Bill Fenner has put together a nice WWW browsing mechanism for the CVS repository itself, if you aren't keeping one up-to-date on your local machine (CVSup is quite effective for doing that, too! Then you could have all the tags at once :) http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi is the url. You can browse and get a sense of what tags are available by looking at one of the files in the core distribution (eg src/bin/ls/ls.c) Generally the only tags you will be interested in are the ones documented in the handbook and their logical successors. Developers from time to time will tag files belonging to a particular subsystem in order to make their work easier; you'd probably want to steer clear of these unless you know from following -current what they are for. -Chris On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Gareth McCaughan wrote: > I asked: > > > > Is there any way of finding out a complete set of valid CVS tags > > > for the CVS repository available via CVSup? > > John Polstra replied: > > > All the useful ones are documented in section 17.2.3 of the FreeBSD > > Handbook. > > Well, yes, but there is no guarantee that the Handbook is always > up to date, surely? (It still claims to document 2.1.7, for instance.) > > It would be good if there were some way of interrogating the server > so as to find out what CVS tags make sense to it. On nasty way would > be to have a collection in the main branch, containing exactly one file: > a list of all "approved" tags. Then it's just necessary to remember > to keep this up to date any time a new tag is added. > > -- > Gareth McCaughan Dept. of Pure Mathematics & Mathematical Statistics, > gjm11@dpmms.cam.ac.uk Cambridge University, England. >
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