On Jun 20, 2:54 am, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:26:09 -0300, Simon Brunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > escribió: > > > > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 2:14 PM, sandeep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> hi > > >> we are using tortoise cvs and putty. i want to write a python script > >> to whom i can provide a tag and module.now what this script will do is > >> look for this specific tag and checks for whether its a individual tag > >> or its inside a branch.if its inside a branch then find out what is > >> the branch tag and then check out that branch for me else it checks > >> out that module with that tag. > > >> Actually the thing is i am not able to find the way how i will do it > >> and for where i have to look for the info.so any help will be > >> appreciated. > > > I don't know if Tortoise is scriptable, but Subversion certainly is - > > <http://pysvn.tigris.org/> - and nothing you mention is Tortoise > > specific. > > (Note that he said Tortoise CVS - not Tortoise SVN) > To Sandeep: You should divide the question in two parts: > - how to obtain the info you want from cvs. This has nothing to do with > Python; better ask in a CVS group related to your server. Suppose the answer > is "use the status command with the -lv options", then you'll be able to > obtain the info you want "by hand", executing said cvs command from the cmd > prompt. > - the next task is to automate the execution using Python. You have to run > the command, capture its output and extract the info you want. How to do that > *is* a Python question, but you'll have to formulate it very precisely: "I > want to read the output coming from this command, locate the line that > contains the word XXX starting at column 12, and take the last word on the > third line below it" > For that second part you can get some help here, but first you have to know > *what* to execute and *what* to look for in the output. > > (Anyway, I think the question is not well formulated - what is an "individual > tag", as opposed to "inside a branch"? Every tag applied on a file marks a > certain revision in a certain branch, - if you consider the trunk as a branch > too. Do you want to know if the tag was applied directly over a file on the > trunk? Or do you want to know if the tag is a "branch tag"?) > > -- > Gabriel Genellina
thanks Gabriel i think ur suggestions do formulate my problem.now since i know some commands i wanted to know how can i execute cvs commands from python or we can say how can i capture the output from the cvs command ?. thanks and regards sandeep kumar sharma -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
