How to get Branchlabels and Versionlabels out of a Revision

[Knuplesch, Juergen]

Hello,

I have a CVS-File and a CVS revision number and want to know the branches this Revision is in. (for release purposes)

e.g. MYPROJECT/de/ggt/myfile.java and the revision 1.2.4.3

Lets say myfile.java is branched at 1.2 into BranchLabel1 and into BranchLabel2.

I want to know all the names of the branchlabels myfile.java is in.
Additionaly I want to know the versionlabels 1.2.4.3 is tagged with.

I used the log command and the Netbeans Api, but it did not give me the names of the labels.

When I look into Eclipse DIE it shows me all revisions and the names of the labels.
How does this work?

[Todd Denniston]

Post by Knuplesch, Juergen
Hello,
I have a CVS-File and a CVS revision number and want to know the branches this Revision is in. (for release purposes)
e.g. MYPROJECT/de/ggt/myfile.java and the revision 1.2.4.3
Lets say myfile.java is branched at 1.2 into BranchLabel1 and into BranchLabel2.
I want to know all the names of the branchlabels myfile.java is in.
Additionaly I want to know the versionlabels 1.2.4.3 is tagged with.
I used the log command and the Netbeans Api, but it did not give me the names of the labels.
When I look into Eclipse DIE it shows me all revisions and the names of the labels.
How does this work?

I don't think it will give you everything you are looking for, at least not
the way you are looking for it, but cvs2cl may get you part of the way there.

http://www.red-bean.com/cvs2cl/

If you run it as
`cvs2cl -r -t --branches`
I think it will get you close to what you want.

if you run it as
`cvs2cl -r -t --branches --xml`
you get an xml file that might be easier for you to further parse with your
scripts.


Note: if you are on windows, I believe CVSNT comes with a cvs2cl.py that does
pretty nearly the same thing.