cvs history command

[Murugaiyan, Natarajan [IT]]

I have trouble getting the 'cvs history' command to work.

When I run the 'cvs history -p gfdtsadm -c request' command, hoping to get
all commits by anyone for the file 'request' in module 'gfdtsadm', I get 23 
records
and none of them are for the file 'request'.
The 23 matching records are for files other than 'request' in module 'gfdtsadm'
and other files in other modules in the same source tree.

I am accessing the repository using cvs client 1.10 from a solaris 2.6 box 
accessing the repository running on a solaris 2.8 box. 

On the server, the CVS/history file in the source tree has some records for the 
'request' file of 'gfdtsadm' module:
        $ grep request history | grep gfdtsadm   
        M401859a2|sz84534|<remote>|gfdtsadm/pkg|1.1.1.1.2.1|request
        M4027bd56|sz84534|<remote>|gfdtsadm/pkg|1.1.1.1.2.2|request
        M40310062|sz84534|<remote>|gfdtsadm/pkg|1.1.1.1.2.3|request
        M403286c1|vk84407|<remote>|gfdtsadm/pkg|1.1.1.1.2.4|request
        M4033baf7|fdtssrc|~/tmpwork/wc/MAIN/gfdtsadm|gfdtsadm/pkg|1.2|request
        M403e7fbe|nm79568|<remote>|gfdtsadm/pkg|1.3|request
        G4045f218|nm79568|<remote>*8|gfdtsadm/pkg|1.3|request
        M4045f7ea|nm79568|<remote>|gfdtsadm/pkg|1.4|request
        M40522c77|nm79568|<remote>|gfdtsadm/pkg|1.5|request

The CVSROOT/config file of the source tree has no 'LogHistory' keyword 
specified in it implying 
the default log level for history file.

I have tried following variations of the history command but none of them give 
the info I am looking for:
        cvs history -w -p gfdtsadm -c request 
        cvs history -p gfdtsadm -c pkg/request
      cvs history -p gdftsadm -c gfdtsadm/pkg/request
      cvs history -m gfdtsadm -c request
      cvs history -n gfdtsadm -c request

Does anyone know what is the difference between the -m, -p and -n options for 
the 'cvs history' command?


Natarajan Murugaiyan(Ravi)