Re: Tagging on branches

[Jean-Marc Saffroy]

On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, CVS list wrote:

> Thanks Scott. It's good to get reassurance. Would you be willing to 
> share something of the changelog - not the content, but how it "works" 
> (or can anyone point me to a resource on changelog good practice).

Good changelogs are more synthetic than a bunch of commit messages, but it 
helps to use the CVS changelog as a basis, and cvs2cl works well for me.
  http://www.red-bean.com/cvs2cl/

For example, I use the following function in my scripts:

#############
cl_delta() {
    # CAUTION: cvs rlog DEMANDS that there is NO space after -r
    cvs rdiff -r $1 -r $2 $module \
        | lsdiff \
        | xargs cvs rlog -r$1::$2 \
        | cvs2cl --rcs /cvsroot/$module --stdin --stdout \
           --hide-filenames
    if [ $verbose -gt 1 ]; then
        cvs rdiff -r $1 -r $2 $module | diffstat
    fi
}
#############

And use it to generate a log of commits between two tags on the same 
branch:
 $ cl_delta tag1 tag2

I don't know how meaningful it is for tags on different branches.


Cheers,

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Jean-Marc Saffroy - address@hidden