From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 19 09:00:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA08008 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 09:00:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from pahtoh.cwu.edu (root@pahtoh.cwu.edu [198.104.65.27]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA07976 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 09:00:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from opus.cts.cwu.edu (skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu [198.104.92.71]) by pahtoh.cwu.edu (8.6.13/8.6.9) with ESMTP id JAA10218; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 09:00:15 -0800 Received: from localhost (skynyrd@localhost) by opus.cts.cwu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA15707; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 09:00:13 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 09:00:12 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Timmons To: Gareth McCaughan cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSup tags In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. >