Arthur Barrett writes: > > It's EASY to obtain the base revision number - it's hardcoded in the > branch number.
Exactly (which is why it's nothing like trying to intuit the date/time the branch was created). For generality, you need to support normal RCS branches in addition to CVS magic branches, but that's just a small detail. > but since mthread/rjkumr is writing an Eclipse extension, a > list of version numbers is all that is needed isn't it? Correct, and that's what there's no easy way to do, you have to parse the output from ``status -v'' or ``log'', and that's not trivial. -- Larry Jones I like Mom to be impressed when I fulfill the least of my obligations. -- Calvin
