Larry, > > > Can somebody tells me what the ... is the meaning of these columns??? > > > > http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/cvs-1.11.23/cvs_16.html#SEC144 > > Unfortunately, that section does *not* document the format of the > history output (although it should).
I thought all the columns except the 'type' column were self explanatory, and that page explains the record type column pretty well. So yes I interpreted the question to be not 'what is the precise definition and meaning of each and every column?', but rather as 'what is the meaning of the unobvious column?' - and maybe a little of 'where is the manual for this confounded thing?'. It could be argued that the section should also explain a lot of other things about history, including that it's not failsafe, that the history is not created automatically (not only does the CVSROOT/history file need to exist to run the history command it must exist before history is recorded), the meaning of each column, how to configure which command types are listed by default etc etc. But the page for the 'log' command doesn't explain the output of 'log' either, so if the manual is currently unhelpful then at least the manual is consistently unhelpful: http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/cvs-1.11.23/cvs_16.html#SEC150 My suspicion has always been that the original idea for the manual was that each thing should only be documented in one place (easier to change later that way) - and since the output of history is more-or-less the stored format of history I think that's the only place it gets documented. I did think I saw a link to the administration files section of the manual from the history command page, but on closer inspection there does not appear to be such a link... Regards, Arthur
