[cvsnt] Re: How to export sequentially all revisions of a file???

[Bo Berglund]

On Tue, 30 May 2006 10:15:21 -0300, Gerhard Fiedler
<lists at connectionbrazil.com> wrote:

>Bo Berglund wrote:
>
>> I need to get every revision of a particular file from my repository.
>> The file has 122 revisions, most untagged.
>> 
>> I need to automate a file checking function and I wanted to do this
>> outside any sandbox so I like to use the cvs export command. But it
>> seems like export needs a *tag* as the -r argument.
>> Any ideas how to do this (I don't want to tag 122 revisions in the
>> repository)?
>
>I'm not sure why you want to do it outside of a sandbox. You can of course
>use the checkout/update commands on a file, with a revision number as
>argument to -r. You can then copy/move the file to a different location,
>outside the sandbox, if needed.
>
>Alternatively, you could automate the tagging and exporting with a
>batch/script. But I think that update and copy/move is faster.
>

You missed my own reply to the post where I described exactly this
approach. The test is now done.

HTH

/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)