How to get useful logs

[Adam Braa]

Hello all,

Im new to the group, and ill get straight to the point.

Im requested to get the checkin comments of branches and tags and make them 
into some sort of releasenote.txt.

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Say I have a module called FOO.
And I branched it to FOO-branch

How would I get the check in comments of FOO-branch between 9/1 and 9/30. 

Mind you, that im only looking for info on that branch, and not the whole 
module and other branches related to it.

Im having the hardest time trying to find a command that will just give me the 
info I need, instead of giving me the log of the whole module from the main 
trunk.



This is my first guess:


cvs log -d"2002-9-1<2002-9-30" -rFOO-branch FOO>>c:\work\history.txt

which does nothing other than get me the whole main trunk of the tree and not 
the branch. Many many unrelated changes are poping up.




Thanks in advance.


ADAM W. BRAA 
Release Engineer