Re: [HACKERS] CVS log for a specific tag

> Bruce asked:
>
> >
> > I am working on doing the HISTORY file for the 6.4.1 release.
> >
> > I can't figure out how to generate a cvs log for only the REL6_4 cvs
> > tree.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me how to do it?
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> egrep -e '/[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.2\.[0-9]+/' `find . -name Entries -print` | \
> grep '[^:]*CVS/Entries:' | \
> sed -e 's/\(Entries:\/[^\/]*\).*/\1/' | \
> sed -e 's/CVS\/Entries:\///' | \
> while read f ; do
> cvs log -rREL6_4: $f
> done
>
> Use this script in the working directory where you checked
> out the REL6_4 branch. I depends on the fact that every file,
> touched in that branch, has a 2 in it's third element of the
> revision number.
>
> The egrep-sed party just selects all file names from the
> CVS/Entries which have such a revision number. Then cvs is
> called for each to print out the log from REL6_4 to the last
> revision in the branch.
>
> Make sure there is no blank between -r and REL6_4: on the cvs
> log call, or the called rlog will misinterpret it as a
> filename and print out the complete logging for the trunk.

I have attached my pgcvslog, modified to allow revisions to be specified:

pgcvslog -r '\.2\.[0-9]*$'

It is a shame that we have to rely on one of the revisions numbers to
pull out the REL6_4 branch of the tree.

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