Remember the CVS problems I had grabbing the logs from just one branch
of cvs?
Well, it turns out it is a cvs bug. CVS is fine with showing logs from
just a branch iff the file existed when the branch was created. For
post-branch files like pgsql/GNUmakefile.in, you see all changes.
I received e-mails from the cvs 'log' maintainer, which are attached.
He explained the problem and gave me a workaround. He is going to try
and get the bug fixed.
I have modified pgcvslog to show the workaround, and have attached the
output. Seems cvs2cl works around this problem somehow.
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On a related note, what tag should I give to cvs to get code from the
7.0.3 branch? Is it REL7_0_PATCHES?
It is. I can grab the cvs using that tag, but can not grab log entries
using that tag. No one seems to know why it doesn't work.
What are you trying to do? In what way does it not work as you
expect?
I just tried to find a file which was changed on the REL7_0_PATCHES
branches, but I failed. I was probably doing something wrong.
(I used to be a CVS maintainer--technically, I suppose I still am--so
I know something about how CVS works.)
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cvs log -rREL7_0_PATCHES
I want just log entries that are part of the branch. I get all entries.
What I see when I try this is that for files which have the
REL7_0_PATCHES tag (i.e., files which are on the branch), I see only
log entries for the branch. For files which are do not have the
REL7_0_PATCHES tag (i.e., are not on the branch), I see all log
entries.
For example, in the top pgsql directory,
cvs log -rREL7_0_PATCHES HISTORY
gives me only log entries for the branch for the HISTORY file.
However,
cvs log -rREL7_0_PATCHES GNUmakefile.in
gives me all log entries. It also gives me this warning:
cvs server: warning: no revision `REL7_0_PATCHES' in
`/home/projects/pgsql/cvsroot/pgsql/GNUmakefile.in,v'
Is this also what you see?
The natural way to fix this ought to be
cvs co -rREL7_0_PATCHES pgsql
cvs log .
Unfortunately, I tried it, and cvs log, I believe erroneously, seems
to pick up all files in the directory, even if they have not been
checked out.
I can tell you a hideous kludge to avoid this, but I can't claim that
it is the way to operate. Check out the branch using the -r option as
above. Then do this:
find . -name CVS -type d -exec touch '{}/Entries.Static' \;
After that, in the same directory, do
cvs log -rREL7_0_PATCHES
I'd hate to have to explain why that works.
Which version of CVS are you running on the server? When I find some
time I'll see about fixing cvs log.
Ian
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