NAME

Meta::Tool::Fhist - module to help you deal with Fhist.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

        MANIFEST: Fhist.pm
        PROJECT: meta
        VERSION: 0.18

SYNOPSIS

        package foo;
        use Meta::Tool::Fhist qw();
        my($object)=Meta::Tool::Fhist->new();
        my($result)=$object->method();

DESCRIPTION

This module helps you interact with fhist - ask something of it and it shall oblige. Pay attention that we do NOT use the -BINary flag anymore since aegis supports binary files from version 3.26.

FUNCTIONS

        BEGIN()
        history($)
        create($$)
        get($$$)
        put($$)
        query($)
        easy_put($)
        TEST($)

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

BEGIN()

Bootstrap method to find your version of fhist.

history($)

This method receives a file name and returns the history object of that module. Mind you that normally you would not use this because SCS systems use fhist only for storage. If you want to get a full listing of a sources history - go to your SCS system (Aegis).

create($$)

This method will create a new fhist module for a new file to save history for.

get($$$)

This method will get a certain edit of a certain module from history.

put($$)

This method will put (commit) a module to history.

query($)

This method receives a module name and queries the history tool about its history.

easy_put($)

This method just put a file given to it in history.

TEST($)

Test suite for this module.

SUPER CLASSES

None.

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

        Name: Mark Veltzer
        Email: mailto:veltzer@cpan.org
        WWW: http://www.veltzer.org
        CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

        0.00 MV revision change
        0.01 MV better general cook schemes
        0.02 MV all fhist stuff into Fhist.pm
        0.03 MV pictures in docbooks
        0.04 MV languages.pl test online
        0.05 MV history change
        0.06 MV perl packaging
        0.07 MV db inheritance
        0.08 MV md5 project
        0.09 MV database
        0.10 MV perl module versions in files
        0.11 MV movies and small fixes
        0.12 MV graph visualization
        0.13 MV thumbnail user interface
        0.14 MV more thumbnail issues
        0.15 MV website construction
        0.16 MV web site automation
        0.17 MV SEE ALSO section fix
        0.18 MV md5 issues

SEE ALSO

File::Basename(3), Meta::Baseline::Aegis(3), Meta::Revision::Entry(3), Meta::Revision::Revision(3), Meta::Utils::File::Patho(3), Meta::Utils::Output(3), Meta::Utils::System(3), strict(3)

TODO

-this module should check if the files are binary via some interface and not hardcoded as it is now.