[TriLUG] Anyone ever integrated CVS with another tool?

[John Turner]

On Tuesday, April 8, 2003, at 10:17 AM, B. Evans wrote:

> John Turner wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, April 8, 2003, at 10:00 AM, B. Evans wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone on the list ever integrated CVS information with another 
>>> tool?  My team is hoping to "integrate" some CVS information into 
>>> another tool, either DevTrack, an Apache CGI or maybe even Lotus > 
>>> Notes.
>>> Other than the 'cvs log' command are there any other easy ways to 
>>> get CVS to "share" information?
>>>
>> What kind of information are you looking for?
>>
>> I have used Tinderbox and cvsweb with CVS.
>
> I was looking for pointers like those actually.  Mgmt has given a very 
> vague request of getting information from CVS, DevTrack, and two other 
> proprietary tools to "roll-up" into one tool.  Right now I don't think 
> the idea will fly.  But I thought I'd probe TriLUG about CVS to see if 
> there were any easy hooks to exploit information out of CVS.  I'll 
> look into these two and see what I can see.
>
> Thanks.

Are you looking for reporting tools or are you looking to moved the CVS 
repository into another tool?  You might also look at "cvs history" and 
"cvs diff" to get more information.

John