Re: List all files that have changed between to tags?

[Mark Mynsted]

"Teala Spitzbarth" <address@hidden> writes:

> The most straightforward way is to use the rdiff command
> 
>       cvs rdiff -s -r green -r rel-1-1 <MODULENAME>
> 
> This gives you a listing of all files that changed between the two tags,
> and the beginning and ending revisions for those files.

That is perfect!  Thank you.


> If you want log information (i.e. commit comments for every commit made
> between the two tags) then you need to use log or rlog - though the
> development version of cvs is required to get fixes to log to get
> correct output.  Also the syntax of -rTAG1:TAG2 doesn't give you exactly
> the same listing of changes "between" the tags, it includes the
> revisions on the tags. This is clip from an email from Larry Jones and I
> about how to get the right stuff out of log:
> ========================================================================
> > What I really want from a 'tag1:tag2' syntax is: give me all the
> > selected revisions&their change comments for revisions made after tag1
> > and included in tag2. But I can see reading the log reference that it
> > clearly says the tag1:tag2 syntax is inclusive in terms of revisions.
> 
> The current development version also has a tag1::tag2 syntax that's
> exclusive, but it doesn't do quite what you want since it excludes tag2
> as well as tag1.  You can always do "-r tag1::tag2 -r tag2", though.
> ========================================================================

Very cool.  Thank you.  :-)



> 
> Cheers,
> Teala
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Mynsted [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 2:28 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: List all files that have changed between to tags?
> 
> 
> I have a branch that has two tags...  How do I list all of the files
> that have changed between the to tags on that branch?
> 
> Example:
> 
> I have a branch with tags:
> 
> green
> rel-1-1
> 
> How do I list all of the files that have changed between those tags?
> I do not want to know what changed in the files, just what files
> changed?
> 
> Any help would be great.  :-)
> 
> 
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