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Re: cvs history -f command


From: Larry Jones
Subject: Re: cvs history -f command
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 17:44:49 -0500 (EST)

Abhay Jain writes:
> 
> Actually I am specifying the argument for report type.
> I tried:
> 
> cvs history -e -a
> cvs history -x ATMG -a
> 
> all these commands with and without -f <filename> or just <filename> give
> the same result.
> (they display all the files matching the criteria)

What version of CVS are you using?  F, O, E, and T records do not have
associated file names, so asking for any of those types of records will
get you all of them.  C, G, U, W, A, M, and R records do have associated
filenames and will be limited to those contaning the specified string. 
This definitely works with CVS 1.11 -- it's possible that there are bugs
in previous versions.

> It makes me believe that somehow the filenames also need to be specified in
> the "modules" file or somewhere else, otherwise they are not recognized for
> string comparison purposes (-f or -b options of history). Is that true ? I
> have only defined the module names in the "modules" file.

No.  history doesn't look at the modules file, only the history file.

-Larry Jones

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