Repository Tags

[Matías Waterloo]

Hello,

I would like to know if it is possible to query the tags for a given project. 

I believe the only way to get this data is through Repository.log property since neither this data-type nor the CodeRepository keeps information about tags. However, I think this method won't be very reliable.

Am I wrong?

Thank you

Matias  

[Robert Dyer]

Good question!

While in general, the answer is that Boa does not (explicitly) contain a list of repository tags, at least for now Boa only has CVS and SVN style repository data and for those repositories (because CVS is converted into SVN) you can find tags using the standard SVN directory layout.

This layout says that all tags are in '/tags/.../'.  You can see an example of a query looking for those here:

http://boa.cs.iastate.edu/boa/?q=boa/job/public/6910

The output here is indexed first by project ID, then by the tag.  The counts on the right are how many ChangedFiles have that tag.

- Robert

[Carlos Eduardo Dantas]

Hi Robert,

This answer was more than 2 years ago, and maybe something change. I wanna know if i can get the snapshot of some tag. In git, a tag is a pointer to some commit, and i wanna the snapshot until that commit. But first, i need to know witch commit represent each tag.

[Robert E Dyer]

Hi Carlos,

Unless I am mistaken, I think we actually did not store the Git tags into our dataset!  It seems we have a ‘getTags’ method in our data generation code, but never actually use it.

I filed an issue on this request: https://github.com/boalang/compiler/issues/73

- Robert

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