Re: Antwort: Re: use case: which tags are implementing a specific feature which was realized in revision X? [*]

[John Peacock <jo...@havurah-software.org>]

Lutz.Dornbusch@fiducia.de wrote:
> Again: In CVS it was a trivial task, and I need it for _all_ tags. 
> At the moment I think I have to write a script which loops through all 
> files and looks into each tag.

CVS is a file-oriented VCS, whereas Subversion is a repository-oriented 
VCS.  Consequently, some of the information that CVS provided 
automatically is not explicitly stored in Subversion.  The data you are 
looking for is, unfortunately, one of those things which Subversion 
doesn't support.  This is unfortunately something you should have 
discovered before you converted, rather than after.

At this point, you are indeed going to have to write a script to 
ascertain this information; I am not aware of any general purpose tool 
for performing this kind of introspection.  Indeed, it may not be 
possible to create a truly general tool for this, since your development 
style may be very different from others in a similar situation.

I wish I could be more helpful.  There is some hope for the future 
though, since there has been some talk about adding a copy-to property 
(though possibly not until 2.0).  This would likely be a multivalued 
property that would record (e.g. in trunk) where a given revision was 
copied to (e.g. a tag).  This information would allow you to generate a 
file's history from trunk and get the tags for free, which would be 
precisely the data you are looking for.

HTH

John

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