Re: Accessing CVS repositry history remotely

[Mark D. Baushke]

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address@hidden <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm trying to access the comments of a checked-in file.  It actually
> looks like history isnt going to do it for me, and log is a better
> option (bit more research does help, eh?).

Yes.

> The idea of the program I'm trying to write is to grab all the files
> in my repository with certain comments and return a list of them.

URLs that may help you:

  cvs2cl  - http://www.red-bean.com/cvs2cl/

  jCVS    - http://www.jcvs.org/

  LibCVS  - http://directory.fsf.org/GNU/LibCVS.html

  statcvs - http://statcvs.sourceforge.net/

  VCS     - http://search.cpan.org/~gmccar/VCS-0.14/VCS.pm

  ViewCVS - viewcvs.sourceforge.net (has an optional MySQL backend for
            meta data you may find useful)

And, of course, you have already identified the JCVSReport project out
of toronto.edu.

> Example:
>
> I want to find all the files changed when fixing a certain bug.  So I
> search for Bug xxxx, and it returns a list of all the files that were
> associated with that fix, denoted by the "Bug xxxx" phrase in the
> comments.
>
> I hope that clarifys a bit more, thanks again.

Somewhat... the nature of your connectivity to the repository remains a
mystery, but we probably don't really care too much. :-)

        Good luck,
        -- Mark
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