Re: Was I dreaming...?

[Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>]

>>>>> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>:

> I know very little cvs but looking thru the docs, looks like I ask
> for a certain revision, but it wasn't that clear how (the syntax)
> and how first to determine what version is current.

Files may have a sticky tag, locking it to a particular version, or
branch.  If you do
	cd wherever/gnus/
	cvs up -A
	cvs up -dP
you should be at the head of the trunk (aka. "main branch") of Gnus.

...if that's what you wanted to do...? :-)

> For the last part, is `cvs status' the only way?  Can it be aimed at
> less than `cvs status' ... That is lots of output.  Is there
> something that just tells the whole gnus module's current version
> number?

Not really, but you can do this:

Open a Gnus .el file in GNU emacs (I don't think XEmacs has this, but
for both GNU emacs, and XEmacs, "PCL-CVS" is recommended if you plan
to use CVS).

Observe that on the status bar it says "(Emacs-Lisp CVS-someversionnumber)"

Do `C-x v l'.  This will display the CVS log of the file.

Go to the start of the buffer displaying the log.  See the text
"symbolic names:".  Under that text, all tags in the CVS file for this
file, are listed.  When larsi stamp a particular release of Gnus, he
puts a tag for that release on a particular version of all files that
belong to the release.

> cvs status gnus  tells me it knows nothing about gnus

cd to the top level directory of your gnus checkout, and type "cvs
status".  That's probably what you're looking for.