How to access CVS's "commit comments"

[Cameron Laird]

What *should* I call them--"commit comment"? "log message"? I
find their rubric poorly standardized from one organization to
another.

In any case, is there any "cvs $COMMAND ..." way to access them
other than
cvs log $FILE
? "cvs log ..." forces a lot of header on me I don't want (for
the current application), and I was hoping to be able *conveni-
ently* to ask for just the revision comment.
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[John Mellor]

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 19:05:07 +0000, Cameron Laird wrote:
.... is there any "cvs $COMMAND ..." way to access them other than cvs log $FILE ? "cvs log ..." forces a lot of header on me I don't want (for the current application), and I was hoping to be able *conveni- ently* to ask for just the revision comment.

You can omit all the label information with
cvs log -N <target>
and
cvs log -R <rev1>-<rev2> <target>
and several other variants depending on what the real intent is.
You need to peruse the Cederqvist...

[Cameron Laird]

In article <pan.2003.07.18.01.49.00.720216@mellor.mellor.kw.net>,
John Mellor <john@mellor.mellor.kw.net> wrote:On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 19:05:07 +0000, Cameron Laird wrote:... is there any "cvs $COMMAND ..." way to access them other than cvs log $FILE ? "cvs log ..." forces a lot of header on me I don't want (for the current application), and I was hoping to be able *conveni- ently* to ask for just the revision comment.You can omit all the label information with cvs log -N <target>and cvs log -R <rev1>-<rev2> <target>and several other variants depending on what the real intent is.You need to peruse the Cederqvist...

Grrr. That is, thanks much; now I know to look in the
Cederqvist, *and* I know that the reference I had on
hand is incomplete.

I have a related question. Your <target> needs to be
a relative filename which both is present in the live
filesystem, *and* the CVS repository, correct? I il-
lustrate: my CVS project has a file
subproject1/subdir2/myfile.c
To use "cvs log ...", I need to write
cvs log [options] subproject1/subdir2/myfile.c
AND I need to be in a directory which has a
subproject1/subdir2/myfile.c
true?
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Cameron Laird <Cameron@Lairds.com>
Business: http://www.Phaseit.net
Personal: http://phaseit.net/claird/home.html