How to search cvs comment history
- by Chris Noe
I am aware of this command:
cvs log -N -w<userid> -d"1 day ago"
Unfortunately this generates a formatted report with lots of newlines in it, such that the file-path, the file-version, and the comment-text are all on separate lines. Therefore it is difficult to scan it for all occurrences of comment text, (eg, grep), and correlate the matches to file/version.
(Note that the log output would be perfectly acceptable, if only cvs could perform the filtering natively.)
EDIT: Sample output. A block of text like this is reported for each repository file:
RCS file: /data/cvs/dps/build.xml,v
Working file: build.xml
head: 1.49
branch:
locks: strict
access list:
keyword substitution: kv
total revisions: 57; selected revisions: 1
description:
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revision 1.48
date: 2008/07/09 17:17:32; author: noec; state: Exp; lines: +2 -2
Fixed src.jar references
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revision 1.47
date: 2008/07/03 13:13:14; author: noec; state: Exp; lines: +1 -1
Fixed common-src.jar reference.
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