NAME
Tie::Cvs - Perl extension to tie Hashes to CVS trees
SYNOPSIS
use Tie::Cvs;
tie %cvs, 'Tie::Cvs', "/root/mycvsroot";ABSTRACT
Tie::Cvs is a module to tie Perl hashes with a CVS Tree. It uses
CVS versioning system such that the hash will have value versions.DESCRIPTION
Use it normally, as any other tie.
Complete deletion of a key
Each time you call delete on a key, the current version will be deleted, and the value will roll back to the previous version in CVS. If there is no previous version, the file will be deleted.
If you want to delete completly a key (delete the file) use something like:
while(delete($cvs{$key})) {}METHODS
The defined methods are the standard for tie modules.
TIEHASH
Used to tie to the cvs, is used when you do
tie %cvs, 'Tie::Cvs', "/root/mycvsroot";STORE
Used to store a key, when you do
$cvs{foo} = "bar";FETCH
Used to retrieve the value for a key:
$bar = $cvs{foo};FIRSTKEY
Used when you use the keys on the hash, to retrieve the first key.
NEXTKEY
Used when you use the keys on the hash, to retrieve the next key.
EXISTS
Used when you call exists over a key
DELETE
Used to rollback a value;
norm
Used to built a normalised proper filename from a name.
norminv
Used to built obtain the name from the normalised filename.
CLEAR
Not yet used...
SEE ALSO
perltie
AUTHOR
Jose Joao Dias de Almeida, <jj@di.uminho.pt>
Alberto Manuel B. Sim�es, <albie@alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright 2003-2015 by Projecto Natura
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.