Sandeep, > I had another question. Is there any way I can find the first > time any file > appeared in the CVS repository, > i.e. the first time it was committed into the repository?
The CVS/CVSNT repository CAN give you all this sort of information, but it's not really designed for access that way. Again in CVSNT we added a failsafe audit function that audits all this type of information to an SQL database of your choice, and provided that it is always enabled then you can get all this info back with a simple SQL query or your favourite reporting tool. It's a basic requirement of most large companiest that important information is independantly auditable - and so this way you can fulfill an accounting requirement and obtain a real business benefit at the same time. At some future point we'll probably make the audit mandatory (to SQLite or something), and also provide an 'audit import' to pre-load all the reporting tables with info from the RCS repository... Regards, Arthur
