Re: cvs tags

"J.V." <[email protected]> Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:46:47 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I have no files checked out.  So cannot do that.

Also I have no clue as to any file in the repo at the moment and no idea 
what path may exist.

Any other ideas?  Why is such a fundamental feature simply not there?

Am I the only person in the software development ecosphere that has ever 
asked this question?

On 11/16/2011 3:28 PM, Larry Jones wrote:
> J.V. writes:
>> How do I see tags in the cvs repo without installing other software
>> (like Eclipse).
> In a working directory, you can use ``cvs status -v file'' to see the
> tags in that file and they're labeled as to whether they're revision
> tags or branch tags.
>
> If you don't have the code checked out yet, you can use ``cvs rlog -h
> path/file'' to get the info, but you have to figure out for yourself
> which are revision tags and which are branch tags. The rule of thumb is
> that branches have an odd number of non-zero components, revisions have
> an even number.