From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 19 02:59:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA16192 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 02:59:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from lilac.csi.cam.ac.uk (exim@lilac.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA16187 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 02:59:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from g.pet.cam.ac.uk [131.111.209.233] by lilac.csi.cam.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 1.58 #1) id 0w7J5A-0003cN-00; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 10:59:00 +0000 Received: from g.pet.cam.ac.uk [127.0.0.1] by g.pet.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.59 #1) id 0w7J5S-0006TT-00; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 10:59:18 +0000 To: John Polstra Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSup tags In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 18 Mar 1997 18:10:08 PST." <199703190210.SAA16117@austin.polstra.com> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 10:59:18 +0000 From: Gareth McCaughan Message-Id: Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.