Re: how to find the fiels checked in a particular date/time

[Todd Denniston]

krevathi1912 wrote, On 04/22/2008 07:16 AM:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any way to find the list of files checked in CVS in a particular
> date/time in a repository that contains a module with lot of sub
> directories,sub-sub directories and files
>
>
> Regards
> Revathi

I find the easiest way is to first get a change log of the repository/module, 
using cvs2cl[1].
`cd my_sandbox ; cvs2cl -r -t ; less ChangeLog `

You can even play some tricks if you know roughly when the commit occurred.
first you have to get date string(s) describing the date(s) in ISO 8601 [2].
For instance, if you wanted to know about all the commits in the last 10 days:

#####begin bash script
TODAY=`date --iso-8601`
TENAGO=`date -d "10 days ago" --iso-8601`
#I really like gnu date. :)
DATESTRING=`echo "$TENAGO;$TODAY"`
cvs2cl.pl -r -t -l "-d$DATESTRING"
#####end bash script

for examples of the output see the site[3].

[1] http://www.red-bean.com/cvs2cl/
BTW, if you are on windows instead of Unix, you may need to use cvs2cl.py that 
comes with CVSNT instead.

[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime

[3] http://www.red-bean.com/cvs2cl/ChangeLog-basic.txt
http://www.red-bean.com/cvs2cl/ChangeLog-tags-revs.txt
http://www.red-bean.com/cvs2cl/ChangeLog-the-works.txt

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Todd Denniston
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Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter