I was trying to explain to someone how to figure out which release points to which branch in CVS and realized it's not very intuitive.

When looking at a release all we see is:

Download: calendar-5.x-1.4.tar.gz
Size: 33.08 KB
md5_file hash: 38589f210a60dc02c37ddbdf110f504f
First released: March 10, 2007 - 20:11
Last updated: March 10, 2007 - 20:15

It would be nice to also have

Revision Control Identifier (tag/branch): DRUPAL-5--1-4

Comments

dww’s picture

Title: expose information about the cvs tag/branch » expose information about the cvs tag

we already have that for branches:

http://drupal.org/node/105562
Nightly development snapshot from HEAD

but i agree this would be nice for tags, too.

dww’s picture

Assigned: Unassigned » dww
Status: Active » Needs review
StatusFileSize
new1.28 KB
dww’s picture

Now installed on s.d.o. For example: http://scratch.drupal.org/node/162364
Please suggest better wording if you're so inclined. ;)

dww’s picture

StatusFileSize
new2.74 KB

Here's another version with more CVS-specific text:
"Official release from CVS tag", etc...

dww’s picture

StatusFileSize
new1.32 KB

eek, sorry, wrong patch...

greggles’s picture

I think we should leave it non RCS specific, right?

(Official|Development) release from version control system (tag | branch) X

hunmonk’s picture

Status: Needs review » Needs work

agree w/ greg, especially since we're heading in the direction of versioncontrol_api...

dww’s picture

Status: Needs work » Needs review

Thing is, there are _many_ places in project* that directly check for cvs.module first (just grep for "project_use_cvs"). Until we're actively porting project* to versioncontrol* and untangling the CVS-isms, it's silly to try to make this one particular string different. We don't even have enough experience yet with versioncontrol* to know the "clean" way to solve this problem right now.

drewish’s picture

Status: Needs review » Reviewed & tested by the community

i'm with dww, don't bother fixing one spot until the wholesale replacement starts.

changes look sane. i tested it out on both tags and branches and it looks good to me.

dww’s picture

Status: Reviewed & tested by the community » Fixed

Committed to HEAD and installed on d.o.

greggles’s picture

That seems reasonable to me - thanks very much, guys!

Anonymous’s picture

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)