Veda Larson Palmer wrote:
>Hi Larry,
>
>Thanks for your quick response.
>
>As far as I can tell, both our client and server are at 1.11.2:
>
>% cvs version
>Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.2 (client/server)
>
>I get the same behavior in both local and pserver mode.
>On our pserver host,
>
>% grep cvs /etc/inetd.conf
>cvspserver stream tcp nowait acl /usr/bin/cvs cvs -f --allow-root=/pgrd/ljdev/cv
>sroot pserver
>% /usr/bin/cvs version
>Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.2 (client/server)
>
>Interestingly, the same revision pair works with cvs diff/rdiff -rv1_0 -rv1_1
>(but the output of diff doesn't make very nice release notes ;).
>
>Are you unable to reproduce this behavior in cvs log with your 1.11.2
>installation?
>
>
First off, there is a major difference between the log and diff
functionality here. Diff only needs to process two revisions -
effectively, it's checking out rev1 and rev2 and then running the
equivalent of the diff util that you'd run from the command line.
Now, when you supply two revisions to log, it is a little trickier to
figure out what you want. In this case, I would say it is fairly
obvious that you are asking for all the log messages from revisions
along the trunk from rev1to the base of branch1 then all the revisions
on branch1 up to and including rev2:
------Trunk------rev1-------------------------
\
\---branch1-----rev2-------
But, in this case, things aren't so obvious:
-------Trunk--------------------------------------------
\ \
\----branch1-----rev1 \------branch2-----rev2
Larry only recently made what he called a "first cut" at making log
requests between a "revision and *any* ancestor":
> 2002-04-19 Larry Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> * log.c (log_expand_revlist): First cut at code to allow logging
> between a revision and *any* ancestor, not just one explicitly on
> the same branch (e.g., from 1.1 to 4.1.2.3.6.1).
But I wouldn't be suprised from Larry's phrasing that only case 1 above
had been implemented nor would I be suprised that case 2 was not even
meant to work. Do you know which case your log request fell into?
Derek
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