RE: cvs diff on repository

[Miller Dale Contractor HQ AFWA]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 5:32 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: cvs diff on repository
> 
> I'm wanting to set CVS up so that every time a file is 
> committed it will
> send an email with the diffs to the other developers for code review.
> 
> I added a line to the loginfo file:
> 
> DEFAULT $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/cvsdiff.pl %{sVv}
> 
> cvsdiff.pl is a script that does a cvs diff of the two versions and
> emails the results.  However, a cvs diff does not work on the 
> repository
> files (",v"), it complains about missing CVS/Entries.  Is 
> there a way to
> get the diff of two different versions of a file from the 
> repository?  I
> noticed that the contrib/log.pl script is meant to be run from loginfo
> and does a cvs status, which also fails for me from the repository.
> 
> Thanks for any help.  I emailed a similar question yesterday before I
> subscribed and got a reply saying that it's waiting for moderator
> approval, so apologies if I end up posting this twice..
> 
> Aaron

cvs diff requires you to be in a work area.
cvs rdiff allows you to do a diff without having a work area.
Note that the rdiff uses the "-c" format showing a context diff of three
lines before and after the changes.
Note that the status command does not have a corresponding rstatus command
because the status is comparing a work area to the repository.  So your
cvsdiff.pl program should not include a status command.