[wellylug] CVS woe

[Jethro Carr]

hi all,

CVS is driving me crazy (again).... I've spent 1.5 hours trying to
figure out how to make it do something that should take less than 10
seconds!!!

All I want to do, is to get a list of commit messages since a particular
tag, so I can use it for a changelog, or just simply so I have an idea
of the changes I've made and why when I create a diff.


Now I've tried using:
cvs rlog -r MYTAG::

But that doesn't seem to work, I just end up with a list of all changes
ever committed since the repository start.

I think the -r option for rlog refers to the file revision, not a tag,
if I'm reading the man pages correctly, but I can't find any method to
specify fetching log by a tag.

There are some 3rd party scripts floating around that can do it, but I'm
sure there must be some way in CVS itself to make it happen... I seem to
have memories of using it once long-ago, but can't find any mention in
my CVS notes.


I'm heading off to bed before I toss my screen through the window in
frustration - hopefully someone here can help me, to save the life of an
innocent computer. :-)


thanks in advance,
jethro

-- 
Jethro Carr
www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?cms=blog
www.amberdms.com
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