[cvsnt] Re: Is ${SESSIONID) a CVSNT specific variable or does it also exists on CVS?

[Tony Hoyle]

Marlon van den Berg wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Just one simple question.
> 
> Is ${SESSIONID) a CVSNT specific variable or does it also exists on CVS?
> 
> Why I'm asking this? Well we generally use CVSNT servers only (on both WinNT
> and Linux), but one of our far east offices doesn't want to use CVSNT. They
> stay with CVS, but they do want to use some of our python scripts (for
> verifymsg, commitinfo and so). The ${SESSIONID} is passed to those scripts
> by CVSNT, but I believe that ${SESSIONID} does not exist in plain CVS.
> Meaning the scripts wont work. Am I right?
> 
Yes.  The old cvs didn't have any way of uniquely defining an individual 
commit.

Tony