Re: edit -m messages logged

[Amit Uttamchandani]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:50:30AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
> I want to rewrite a few messages logged at the time cvs ci.
> 
> This is a single user home machine with just config files and homeboy
> scripts under cvs.
> 
> I see a section in the manual under 
> Administrative options
> 
> That shows this:
> `-mREV:MSG'
> 
> Can anyone show the practical usage syntax.
> 
> I've tried various things with just cvs, and cvs admin and cvsadmin but
> not getting it right.
> 
> Assume cd to checked out module
> 
>   How to change the log message in 
> 
>     ./somefile

Hi,

The *-mMSG* is just an option to type the commit message when you check
in the file. So,

cvs commit -m "This is a commit message"

However, it sounds like you want to change messages that are already
logged in CVS. All this information is stored in your CVS repository, in
the ",v" files. These are just text files, so you can edit them. The log
message is under the *log* keyword. Note that the strings are enclosed
in "@", so don't remove these.

Amit