Looking for info on cvs logging

[Norman Crisp]

Is there any sort of internal id generated within CVS that can be picked up
using cvs log or any other cvs command?

For the purpose of metrics gathering I would like to be able to group a
block of files that are committed together with a single "change set id".  I
have implemented a commit template that prompts the designers for
information such as inspection effort, defects found etc.  The problem is
that when using cvs log, I can retrieve this information for metrics
calculations, but I end up getting the total time on each file, and not the
total time for the group of files.  Of course, this throws the numbers way
off.  If an internal id was generated I could gather the numbers once per
id.

Thanks
Norm.