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Asking CVS if a repository/module/tag exists.
From: |
John Daniel Doucette |
Subject: |
Asking CVS if a repository/module/tag exists. |
Date: |
Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:43:59 +0000 |
Hi,
Given a <repository>, <module>, and <tag> is there a polite way to ask CVS
if the combination exists, without actually checking it out, that would
work in a make file. I.e. the command should fail if one of the three
supplied parameters are incorrect, but succeed otherwise. Currently I am
using this construct in a make file, which works, but seems rather brutish.
cvs -d <repository> -r checkout -p -r <tag> <module>
If the repository/tag/module is wrong it does fail, but if it is ok you get
a large amount of stuff spewed to the screen. Redirecting outout to a
file helps a bit. I couldn't find anything appropriate in cvs status or cvs
log.
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- Asking CVS if a repository/module/tag exists.,
John Daniel Doucette <=