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Re: FW: Symbolic tag information after a 'cvs release'
From: |
Pierre Asselin |
Subject: |
Re: FW: Symbolic tag information after a 'cvs release' |
Date: |
8 Apr 2002 22:49:09 -0400 |
In <address@hidden> Sonam Chauhan <address@hidden> writes:
>Sorry - Having never done *software* releases" with CVS myself, I misphrased
>my
>query. What I really meant was 'cvs export'. In other words, we do a 'cvs
>export' of a tagged branch as part of our release process. I wanted to capture
>the tag name of the cvs-*exported* branch by processing a CVS variable in a
>file. This does not seem possible.
There's the $Name$ keyword, but it won't give you the name of the
branch, just the name of the *release* you exported. It makes no
difference if the release is on a branch or on the trunk.
Note: you shouldn't export and ship with a branch tag, because you
won't know what you shipped. You get the tip of the branch, and that
changes as the branch grows.