Re: CVS: find changeset for a file

Sandeep Krishnan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thanks Todd,

For the previous data that I wanted, i used some scripting and extracted 
it directly from the rlog output. I will try cvs2cl as you have 
suggested and see if I can get the information I need.

Thanks very much for the prompt reply.

Sandeep
> Easy. Same answer as I gave you last time when you wanted to search for substrings. :)
>
> By default cvs2cl lists its information by "change set", where "change set" is defined as a bunch of
> files checked in at near (and near is controllable) the same time with EXACTLY the same checkin comment.
>
> Also if you want to use rlog instead of having a checkout, I believe you can pipe the rlog output
> into cvs2cl and tell cvs2cl the log is on stdin.
>
> cvs2cl --help #for all the options
>
> http://www.red-bean.com/cvs2cl/
>
> of course if you want "real" change set numbers you could always use one of those cvs2svn tools and
> then pour through it's output and see if it thinks you had any change sets of more than one file. :^}
>
> Good luck.
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