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Marlon van den Berg wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just one simple question.
>
> Is ${SESSIONID) a CVSNT specific variable or does it also exists on CVS?
>
> Why I'm asking this? Well we generally use CVSNT servers only (on both WinNT
> and Linux), but one of our far east offices doesn't want to use CVSNT. They
> stay with CVS, but they do want to use some of our python scripts (for
> verifymsg, commitinfo and so). The ${SESSIONID} is passed to those scripts
> by CVSNT, but I believe that ${SESSIONID} does not exist in plain CVS.
> Meaning the scripts wont work. Am I right?
>
Yes. The old cvs didn't have any way of uniquely defining an individual
commit.
Tony