Section 6.4. Getting Version Data

6.4. Getting Version Data

The cvsversion task retrieves the version of the CVS client and server. For example, this cvsversion element stores the server's version number in the property cvsServerVersion, and the client's version in cvsClientVersion:

<cvsversion cvsroot=":pserver:steven@STEVE:/home/steven/repository"      password="opensesame"     cvsserverproperty="cvsServerVersion"     cvsclientproperty="cvsClientVersion" />

The attributes for this task appear in Table 6-5.

Table 6-5. The cvsversion task's attributes

Attribute	Description	Required	Default
cvsclientproperty	Specifies the name of the property in which you want the version of the cvsclient to be placed	No
cvsroot	Specifies the CVSROOT variable you want to use	No
cvsrsh	Specifies the CVS_RSH variable you want to use	No
cvsserverproperty	Specifies the name of a property where you want the CVS server version to be placed	No
dest	Specifies the directory which holds, or will hold, a checked-out project	No	Project's basedir
failonerror	Makes the build fail if this task encounters an error	No	false
package	Specifies the module you want to check out	No
passfile	Specifies the password file you want the task to read passwords from	No	~/.cvspass
port	Specifies the port used to communicate with the CVS server	No	Port 2401