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I have often been thinking it would be great if frontends like WinCvs were able to query the CVS system for internal configuration data that could otherwise only be assumed or guessed or parsed from sources that are either only accessible by CVSROOT checkout or whose location or format is potentially subject to change, e.g.: - the complete list of globally ignored patterns including the built-in list and those from the server-side cvsignore, optionally for a given directory as well - the complete list of currently active default options, including the server-side cvsrc, optionally for a given command The list could probably be extended but I think you get the general idea. Those are simply the two I have thought about most often so far. Now, "cvs info" appears to be the natural choice for the name of a command that could return such information but it is already taken... then again, it already does something very similar: it returns info about the client's capabilities with regards to protocol support. Maybe this concept could be extended... Bearing in mind compatibility with the existing cvs info, how about something like this: cvs info [-l] [item] where cvs would assume [item] to be "protocol" if omitted. cvs info -l would return a list of all items that could be queried, e.g. protocol, ignore, default, modules2 (ideally this would have been what happened when invoking cvs info without arguments but that's no longer possible because of the backwards compatibility issues). Now I could do stuff like: cvs info ignore cvs info ignore d:\Dev\MyProject\out cvs info default cvs info default up cvs info protocol sspi cvs info modules2 cvs info modules2 MyModule Again, if the item following "info" is not a recognized query item CVSNT should assume "protocol". This is still only a very rough idea but I think it could be worthwhile. What do you think? Cheers, -- Oliver ---- ------------------ JID: ogiesen at jabber.org ICQ: 18777742 (http://wwp.icq.com/18777742)