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Changes since 1.9:
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* The client no longer needs an external patch program (assuming both
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the client and the server have been updated to the new version).
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* "cvs admin [options]" will now recurse. In previous versions of
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CVS, it was an error and one needed to specify "cvs admin [options] ."
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to recurse. This change brings admin in line with the other CVS
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commands.
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* New "logout" command to remove the password for a remote cvs
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repository from the cvspass file.
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* Read-only repository access is implemented for the
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password-authenticated server (other access methods are just governed
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by Unix file permissions, since they require login access to the
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repository machine anyway). See the "Repository" section of
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cvs.texinfo for details. Note that the security cautions in
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cvs.texinfo ("Password authentication security"), and the requirement
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that read-only users be able to create locks and write the history
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file, both apply.
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* The "checkout" command now creates a CVS directory at the top level
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of the new working directory, in addition to CVS directories created
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within checked-out directories.
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* There is a new administrative file verifymsg which is like editinfo
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but merely validates the message, rather than also getting it from the
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user. It therefore works with client/server CVS or if one uses the -m
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or -F options to commit. See the verifymsg section of cvs.texinfo for
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details.
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* The %s format formerly accepted in loginfo has been extended to
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formats such as %{sVv}, so that loginfo scripts have access to the
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version numbers being changed. See the Loginfo section of cvs.texinfo
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for details.
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* The postscript documentation (doc/cvs.ps) shipped with CVS is now
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formatted for US letter size instead of A4. This is not because we
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consider this size "better" than A4, but because we believe that the
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US letter version will print better on A4 paper than the other way
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around.
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* The "cvs export" command is now logged in the history file and there
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is a "cvs history -x E" command to select history file entries
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produced by export.
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* CVS no longer uses the CVS_PASSWORD environment variable. Storing
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passwords in cleartext in an environment variable is a security risk,
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especially since (on BSD variants) any user on the system can display
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any process's environment using 'ps'. Users should use the 'cvs
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login' command instead.
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Changes from 1.8 to 1.9:
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* Windows NT client should now work on Windows 95 as well.
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* New option "--help-synonyms" prints a list of all recognized command
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synonyms.
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* The "log" command is now implemented internally rather than via the
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RCS "rlog" program. The main user-visible consequence is that
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symbolic branch names now work (for example "cvs log -rbranch1").
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Also, the date formats accepted by -d have changed. They previously
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had been a bewildering variety of poorly-documented date formats. Now
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they are the same as the date formats accepted by the -D options to
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the other CVS commands, which is also a (different) bewildering
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variety of poorly-documented date formats, but at least we are
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consistently bewildering :-).
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* Encryption is now supported over a Kerberos client/server
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connection. The new "-x" global option requests it. You must
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configure with the --enable-encryption option in order to enable
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encryption.
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* The format of the CVS commit message has changed slightly when
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committing changes on a branch. The tag on which the commit is
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ocurring is now reported correctly in all cases.
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* New flag -k in wrappers allows you to specify the keyword expansion
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mode for added files based on their name. For example, you can
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specify that files whose name matches *.exe are binary by default.
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See the Wrappers section of cvs.texinfo for more details.
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* Remote CVS with the "-z" option now uses the zlib library (included
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with CVS) to compress all communication between the client and the
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server, rather than invoking gzip on each file separately. This means
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that compression is better and there is no need for an external gzip
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program (except to interoperate with older version of CVS).
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* The "cvs rlog" command is deprecated and running it will print a
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warning; use the synonymous "cvs log" command instead. It is
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confusing for rlog to mean the same as log because some other CVS
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commands are in pairs consisting of a plain command which operates on
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a working directory and an "r" command which does not (diff/rdiff;
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tag/rtag).
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* "cvs diff" has a bunch of new options, mostly long options. Most of
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these work only if rcsdiff and diff support them, and are named the
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same as the corresponding options to diff.
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* The -q and -Q command options to "cvs diff" were removed (use the
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global options instead). This brings "cvs diff" into line with the
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rest of the CVS commands.
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* The "annotate" command can now be used to annotate a revision other
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than the head revision on the trunk (see the -r, -D, and -f options in
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the annotate node of cvs.texinfo for details).
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* The "tag" command has a new option "-c" which checks that all files
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are not locally modified before tagging.
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* The -d command line option now overrides the cvsroot setting stored
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in the CVS/Root file in each working directory, and specifying -d will
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cause CVS/Root to be updated.
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* Local (non-client/server) CVS now runs on Windows NT. See
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windows-NT/README for details.
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* The CVSROOT variable specification has changed to support more
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access methods. In addition to "pserver," "server" (internal rsh
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client), "ext" (external rsh client), "kserver" (kerberos), and
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"local" (local filesystem access) can now be specified. For more
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details on each method, see cvs.texinfo (there is an index entry for
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:local: and each of the other access methods).
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* The "login" command no longer prompts the user for username and
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hostname, since one will have to provide that information via the `-d'
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flag or by setting CVSROOT.
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Changes from 1.7 to 1.8:
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* New "cvs annotate" command to display the last modification for each
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line of a file, with the revision number, user checking in the
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modification, and date of the modification. For more information see
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the `annotate' node in cvs.texinfo.
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* The cvsinit shell script has been replaced by a cvs init command.
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The cvs init command creates some example administrative files which
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are similar to the files found in the examples directory (and copied
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by cvsinit) in previous releases.
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* Added the patterns *.olb *.exe _$* *$ to default ignore list.
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* There is now a $USER internal variable for *info files.
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* There is no longer a separate `mkmodules' program; the functionality
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is now built into `cvs'. If upgrading an old repository, it is OK to
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leave in the lines in the modules file which run mkmodules (the
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mkmodules actions will get done twice, but that is harmless); you will
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probably want to remove them once you are no longer using the old CVS.
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* One can now specify user variables in *info files via the
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${=varname} syntax; there is a -s global option to set them. See the
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Variables node in cvs.texinfo for details.
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Changes from 1.6 to 1.7:
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* The default ignore list has changed slightly: *.obj has been added
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and CVS* has been changed to CVS CVS.adm.
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* CVS now supports password authentication when accessing remote
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repositories; this is useful for sites that can't use rsh (because of
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a firewall, for example), and also don't have kerberos. See node
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"Password authenticated" (in "Remote repositories", in
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doc/cvs.texinfo) for more details. Note: This feature requires both
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the client and server to be upgraded.
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* Using the -kb option to specify binary files now works--most cases
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did not work before. See the "Binary files" section of
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doc/cvs.texinfo for details.
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* New developer communication features. See the "Watches" section of
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doc/cvs.texinfo for details.
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* RCS keyword "Name" supported for "cvs update -r <tag>" and "cvs
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checkout -r <tag>".
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* If there is a group whose name matches a compiled in value which
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defaults to "cvsadmin", only members of that group can use "cvs
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admin". This replaces the CVS_NOADMIN option.
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* CVS now sets the modes of files in the repository based on the
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CVSUMASK environment variable or a compiled in value defaulting to
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002. This way other developers will be able to access the files in
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the repository regardless of the umask of the developer creating them.
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* The command names in .cvsrc now match the official name of the
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command, not the one (possibly an alias) by which it was invoked. If
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you had previously relied on "cvs di" and "cvs diff" using different
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options, instead use a shell function or alias (for example "alias
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cvsdi='cvs diff -u'"). You also can specify global CVS options (like
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"-z") using the command name "cvs".
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Changes from 1.5 to 1.6:
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* Del updated the man page to include all of the new features
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of CVS 1.6.
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* "cvs tag" now supports a "-r | -D" option for tagging an already
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tagged revision / specific revision of a file.
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* There is a "taginfo" file in CVSROOT that supports filtering and
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recording of tag operations.
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* Long options support added, including --help and --version options.
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* "cvs release" no longer cares whether or not the directory being
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released has an entry in the `modules' file.
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* The modules file now takes a -e option which is used instead of -o
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for "cvs export". If your modules file has a -o option which you want
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to be used for "cvs export", change it to specify -e as well as -o.
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* "cvs export" now takes a -k option to set RCS keyword expansion.
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This way you can export binary files. If you want the old behavior,
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you need to specify -kv.
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* "cvs update", "cvs rdiff", "cvs checkout", "cvs import", "cvs
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release", "cvs rtag", and "cvs tag" used to take -q and -Q options
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after the command name (e.g. "cvs update -q"). This was confusing
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because other commands, such as "cvs ci", did not. So the options
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after the command name have been removed and you must now specify, for
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example, "cvs -q update", which has been supported since CVS 1.3.
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* New "wrappers" feature. This allows you to set a hook which
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transforms files on their way in and out of cvs (apparently on the
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NeXT there is some particular usefulness in tarring things up in the
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repository). It also allows you to declare files as merge-by-copy
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which means that instead of trying to merge the file, CVS will merely
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copy the new version. There is a CVSROOT/cvswrappers file and an
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optionsl ~/.cvswrappers file to support this feature.
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* You can set CVSROOT to user@host:dir, not just host:dir, if your
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username on the server host is different than on the client host.
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* VISUAL is accepted as well as EDITOR.
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* $CVSROOT is expanded in *info files.
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Changes from 1.4A2 to 1.5:
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* Remote implementation. This is very helpful when collaborating on a
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project with someone across a wide-area network. This release can
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also be used locally, like other CVS versions, if you have no need for
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remote access.
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Here are some of the features of the remote implementation:
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- It uses reliable transport protocols (TCP/IP) for remote repository
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access, not NFS. NFS is unusable over long distances (and sometimes
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over short distances)
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- It transfers only those files that have changed in the repository or
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the working directory. To save transmission time, it will transfer
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patches when appropriate, and can compress data for transmission.
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- The server never holds CVS locks while waiting for a reply from the client;
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this makes the system robust when used over flaky networks.
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The remote features are documented in doc/cvsclient.texi in the CVS
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distribution, but the main doc file, cvs.texinfo, has not yet been
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updated to include the remote features.
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* Death support. See src/README-rm-add for more information on this.
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* Many speedups, especially from jtc@cygnus.com.
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* CVS 1.2 compatibility code has been removed as a speedup. If you
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have working directories checked out by CVS 1.2, CVS 1.3 or 1.4A2 will
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try to convert them, but CVS 1.5 and later will not (if the working
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directory is up to date and contains no extraneous files, you can just
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remove it, and then check out a new working directory). Likewise if
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your repository contains a CVSROOT.adm directory instead of a CVSROOT
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directory, you need to rename it.
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Fri Oct 21 20:58:54 1994 Brian Berliner <berliner@sun.com>
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* Changes between CVS 1.3 and CVS 1.4 Alpha-2
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* A new program, "cvsbug", is provided to let you send bug reports
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directly to the CVS maintainers. Please use it instead of sending
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mail to the info-cvs mailing list. If your build fails, you may
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have to invoke "cvsbug" directly from the "src" directory as
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"src/cvsbug.sh".
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* A new User's Guide and Tutorial, written by Per Cederqvist
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<ceder@signum.se> of Signum Support. See the "doc" directory. A
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PostScript version is included as "doc/cvs.ps".
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* The Frequesntly Asked Questions file, FAQ, has been added to the
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release. Unfortunately, its contents are likely out-of-date.
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* The "cvsinit" shell script is now installed in the $prefix/bin
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directory like the other programs. You can now create new
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CVS repositories with great ease.
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* Index: lines are now printed on output from 'diff' and 'rdiff',
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in order to facilitate application of patches to multiple subdirs.
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* Support for a ~/.cvsrc file, which allows you to specify options
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that are always supposed to be given to a specific command. This
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feature shows the non-orthogonality of the option set, since while
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there may be an option to turn something on, the option to turn
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that same thing off may not exist.
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* You can now list subdirectories that you wish to ignore in a
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modules listing, such as:
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gcc -a gnu/gcc, !gnu/gcc/testsuites
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which will check out everything underneath gnu/gcc, except
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everything underneath gnu/gcc/testsuites.
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* It is now much harder to accidentally overwrite an existing tag
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name, since attempting to move a tag name will result in a error,
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unless the -F (force) flag is given to the tag subcommands.
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* Better error checking on matching of the repository used to
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check code out from against the repository the current cvs
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commnands would use. (Thanks to Mark Baushke <mdb@cisco.com>)
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* Better support for sites with multiple CVSROOT repositories has
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been contributed. The file "CVS/Root" in your working directory
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is created to hold the full path to the CVS repository and a
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simple check is made against your current CVSROOT setting.
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* You can now specify an RCS keyword substitution value when you
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import files into the repository.
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* Uses a much newer version of Autoconf, and conforms to the GNU
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coding standards much more closely. No, it still doesn't have
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long option names.
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* Code cleanup. Many passes through gcc -Wall helped to identify
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a number of questionable constructs. Most arbitrary length limits
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were removed.
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* Profiling to determine bottlenecks helped to identify the best
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places to spend time speeding up the code, which was then done. A
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number of performance enhancements in filename matching have sped
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up checkouts.
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* Many more contributions have been added to the "contrib"
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directory. See the README file in that directory for more
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information.
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* "cvs commit" will try harder to not change the file's
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modification time after the commit. If the file does not change
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as a result of the commit operation, CVS will preserve the
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original modification time, thus speeding up future make-type
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builds.
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* "cvs commit" now includes any removed files in the (optional)
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pre-commit checking program that may be invoked. Previously, only
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added and modified files were included.
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* It is now possible to commit a file directly onto the trunk at a
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specific revision level by doing "cvs commit -r3.0 file.c", where
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"3.0" specifies the revision you wish to create. The file must be
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up-to-date with the current head of the trunk for this to succeed.
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* "cvs commit" will now function with a pre-commit program that
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has arguments specified in the "commitinfo" file.
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* The "mkmodules" program will now look within the
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$CVSROOT/CVSROOT/checkoutlist" file for any additional files that
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should be automatically checked out within CVSROOT; mkmodules also
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tries harder to preserve any execute bits the files may have
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originally had.
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* "cvs diff" is much more accurate about its exit status now. It
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now returns the maximum exit status of any invoked diff.
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* The "-I !" option is now supported for the import and update
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commands correctly. It will properly clear the ignore list now.
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* Some problems with "cvs import" handling of .cvsignore have been
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fixed; as well, some rampant recursion problems with import have
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also been fixed.
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* "cvs rdiff" (aka "cvs patch") now tries to set the modify time
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of any temporary files it uses to match those specified for the
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particular revision. This allows a more accurate patch image to
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be created.
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* "cvs status" has improved revision descriptions. "Working
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revision" is used for the revision of the working file that you
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edit directly; "Repository revision" is the revision of the file
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with the $CVSROOT source repository. Also, the output is clearer
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with regard to sticky and branch revisions.
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* CVS no longer dumps core when given a mixture of directories and
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files in sub-directories (as in "cvs ci file1 dir1/file2").
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Instead, arguments are now clumped into their respective directory
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and operated on in chunks, together.
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* If the CVSEDITOR environment variable is set, that editor is
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used for log messages instead of the EDITOR environment variable.
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This makes it easy to substitute intelligent programs to make more
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elaborate log messages. Contributed by Mark D Baushke
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(mdb@cisco.com).
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* Command argument changes:
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cvs: The "-f" option has been added to ignore
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the ~/.cvsrc file.
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commit: Renamed the "-f logfile" option to the
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"-F logfile" option. Added the "-f"
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option to force a commit of the specified
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files (this disables recursion).
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history: Added "-t timezone" option to force any
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date-specific output into the specified
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timezone.
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import: Added "-d" option to use the file's
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modification time as the time of the
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import. Added "-k sub" option to set the
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default RCS keyword substitution mode for
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newly-created files.
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remove: Added "-f" option to force the file's
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automatic removal if it still exists in
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the working directory (use with caution).
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rtag: Added "-F" option to move the tag if it
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already exists -- new default is to NOT
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move tags automatically.
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tag: Added "-F" option to move the tag if it
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already exists -- new default is to NOT
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move tags automatically.
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Tue Apr 7 15:55:25 1992 Brian Berliner (berliner at sun.com)
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* Changes between CVS 1.3 Beta-3 and official CVS 1.3!
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* A new shell script is provided, "./cvsinit", which can be run at
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install time to help setup your $CVSROOT area. This can greatly
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ease your entry into CVS usage.
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* The INSTALL file has been updated to include the machines on
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which CVS has compiled successfully. I think CVS 1.3 is finally
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portable. Thanks to all the Beta testers!
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* Support for the "editinfo" file was contributed. This file
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(located in $CVSROOT/CVSROOT) can be used to specify a special
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"editor" to run on a per-directory basis within the repository,
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instead of the usual user's editor. As such, it can verify that
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the log message entered by the user is of the appropriate form
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(contains a bugid and test validation, for example).
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* The manual pages cvs(1) and cvs(5) have been updated.
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* The "mkmodules" command now informs you when your modules file
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has duplicate entries.
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* The "add" command now preserves any per-directory sticky tag when
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you add a new directory to your checked-out sources.
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* The "admin" command is now a fully recursive interface to the
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"rcs" program which operates on your checked-out sources. It no
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longer requires you to specify the full path to the RCS file.
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* The per-file sticky tags can now be effectively removed with
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"cvs update -A file", even if you had checked out the whole
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|
directory with a per-directory sticky tag. This allows a great
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|
deal of flexibility in managing the revisions that your checked-out
|
|
sources are based upon (both per-directory and per-file sticky
|
|
tags).
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* The "cvs -n commit" command now works, to show which files are
|
|
out-of-date and will cause the real commit to fail, or which files
|
|
will fail any pre-commit checks. Also, the "cvs -n import ..."
|
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command will now show you what it would've done without actually
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|
doing it.
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* Doing "cvs commit modules" to checkin the modules file will no
|
|
properly run the "mkmodules" program (assuming you have setup your
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$CVSROOT/CVSROOT/modules file to do so).
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* The -t option in the modules file (which specifies a program to
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|
run when you do a "cvs rtag" operation on a module) now gets the
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symbolic tag as the second argument when invoked.
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* When the source repository is locked by another user, that user's
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|
login name will be displayed as the holder of the lock.
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* Doing "cvs checkout module/file.c" now works even if
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|
module/file.c is in the Attic (has been removed from main-line
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|
development).
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* Doing "cvs commit */Makefile" now works as one would expect.
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|
Rather than trying to commit everything recursively, it will now
|
|
commit just the files specified.
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|
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* The "cvs remove" command is now fully recursive. To schedule a
|
|
file for removal, all you have to do is "rm file" and "cvs rm".
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With no arguments, "cvs rm" will schedule all files that have been
|
|
physically removed for removal from the source repository at the
|
|
next "cvs commit".
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|
|
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* The "cvs tag" command now prints "T file" for each file that was
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|
tagged by this invocation and "D file" for each file that had the
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|
tag removed (as with "cvs tag -d").
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* The -a option has been added to "cvs rtag" to force it to clean
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|
up any old, matching tags for files that have been removed (in the
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|
Attic) that may not have been touched by this tag operation. This
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can help keep a consistent view with your tag, even if you re-use
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it frequently.
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Sat Feb 29 16:02:05 1992 Brian Berliner (berliner at sun.com)
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* Changes between CVS 1.3 Beta-2 and CVS 1.3 Beta-3
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* Many portability fixes, thanks to all the Beta testers! With any
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|
luck, this Beta release will compile correctly on most anything.
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Hey, what are we without our dreams.
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* CVS finally has support for doing isolated development on a
|
|
branch off the current (or previous!) revisions. This is also
|
|
extremely nice for generating patches for previously released
|
|
software while development is progressing on the next release.
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|
Here's an example of creating a branch to fix a patch with the 2.0
|
|
version of the "foo" module, even though we are already well into
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|
the 3.0 release. Do:
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% cvs rtag -b -rFOO_2_0 FOO_2_0_Patch foo
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% cvs checkout -rFOO_2_0_Patch foo
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% cd foo
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[[ hack away ]]
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% cvs commit
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A physical branch will be created in the RCS file only when you
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|
actually commit the change. As such, forking development at some
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|
random point in time is extremely light-weight -- requiring just a
|
|
symbolic tag in each file until a commit is done. To fork
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|
development at the currently checked out sources, do:
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% cvs tag -b Personal_Hack
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% cvs update -rPersonal_Hack
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[[ hack away ]]
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% cvs commit
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Now, if you decide you want the changes made in the Personal_Hack
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|
branch to be merged in with other changes made in the main-line
|
|
development, you could do:
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% cvs commit # to make Personal_Hack complete
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% cvs update -A # to update sources to main-line
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|
% cvs update -jPersonal_Hack # to merge Personal_Hack
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|
|
to update your checked-out sources, or:
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|
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% cvs checkout -jPersonal_Hack module
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|
|
|
to checkout a fresh copy.
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|
To support this notion of forked development, CVS reserves
|
|
all even-numbered branches for its own use. In addition, CVS
|
|
reserves the ".0" and ".1" branches. So, if you intend to do your
|
|
own branches by hand with RCS, you should use odd-numbered branches
|
|
starting with ".3", as in "1.1.3", "1.1.5", 1.2.9", ....
|
|
|
|
* The "cvs commit" command now supports a fully functional -r
|
|
option, allowing you to commit your changes to a specific numeric
|
|
revision or symbolic tag with full consistency checks. Numeric
|
|
tags are useful for bringing your sources all up to some revision
|
|
level:
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|
|
% cvs commit -r2.0
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|
|
|
For symbolic tags, you can only commit to a tag that references a
|
|
branch in the RCS file. One created by "cvs rtag -b" or from
|
|
"cvs tag -b" is appropriate (see below).
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|
|
|
* Roland Pesch <pesch@cygnus.com> and K. Richard Pixley
|
|
<rich@cygnus.com> were kind enough to contribute two new manual
|
|
pages for CVS: cvs(1) and cvs(5). Most of the new CVS 1.3 features
|
|
are now documented, with the exception of the new branch support
|
|
added to commit/rtag/tag/checkout/update.
|
|
|
|
* The -j options of checkout/update have been added. The "cvs join"
|
|
command has been removed.
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|
|
|
With one -j option, CVS will merge the changes made between the
|
|
resulting revision and the revision that it is based on (e.g., if
|
|
the tag refers to a branch, CVS will merge all changes made in
|
|
that branch into your working file).
|
|
|
|
With two -j options, CVS will merge in the changes between the two
|
|
respective revisions. This can be used to "remove" a certain delta
|
|
from your working file. E.g., If the file foo.c is based on
|
|
revision 1.6 and I want to remove the changes made between 1.3 and
|
|
1.5, I might do:
|
|
|
|
% cvs update -j1.5 -j1.3 foo.c # note the order...
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|
|
|
In addition, each -j option can contain on optional date
|
|
specification which, when used with branches, can limit the chosen
|
|
revision to one within a specific date. An optional date is
|
|
specified by adding a colon (:) to the tag, as in:
|
|
|
|
-jSymbolic_Tag:Date_Specifier
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|
|
|
An example might be what "cvs import" tells you to do when you have
|
|
just imported sources that have conflicts with local changes:
|
|
|
|
% cvs checkout -jTAG:yesterday -jTAG module
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|
|
|
which tells CVS to merge in the changes made to the branch
|
|
specified by TAG in the last 24 hours. If this is not what is
|
|
intended, substitute "yesterday" for whatever format of date that
|
|
is appropriate, like:
|
|
|
|
% cvs checkout -jTAG:'1 week ago' -jTAG module
|
|
|
|
* "cvs diff" now supports the special tags "BASE" and "HEAD". So,
|
|
the command:
|
|
|
|
% cvs diff -u -rBASE -rHEAD
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|
|
|
will effectively show the changes made by others (in unidiff
|
|
format) that will be merged into your working sources with your
|
|
next "cvs update" command. "-rBASE" resolves to the revision that
|
|
your working file is based on. "-rHEAD" resolves to the current
|
|
head of the branch or trunk that you are working on.
|
|
|
|
* The -P option of "cvs checkout" now means to Prune empty
|
|
directories, as with "update". The default is to not remove empty
|
|
directories. However, if you do "checkout" with any -r options, -P
|
|
will be implied. I.e., checking out with a tag will cause empty
|
|
directories to be pruned automatically.
|
|
|
|
* The new file INSTALL describes how to install CVS, including
|
|
detailed descriptions of interfaces to "configure".
|
|
|
|
* The example loginfo file in examples/loginfo has been updated to
|
|
use the perl script included in contrib/log.pl. The nice thing
|
|
about this log program is that it records the revision numbers of
|
|
your change in the log message.
|
|
|
|
Example files for commitinfo and rcsinfo are now included in the
|
|
examples directory.
|
|
|
|
* All "#if defined(__STDC__) && __STDC__ == 1" lines have been
|
|
changed to be "#if __STDC__" to fix some problems with the former.
|
|
|
|
* The lib/regex.[ch] files have been updated to the 1.3 release of
|
|
the GNU regex package.
|
|
|
|
* The ndbm emulation routines included with CVS 1.3 Beta-2 in the
|
|
src/ndbm.[ch] files has been moved into the src/myndbm.[ch] files
|
|
to avoid any conflict with the system <ndbm.h> header file. If
|
|
you had a previous CVS 1.3 Beta release, you will want to "cvs
|
|
remove ndbm.[ch]" form your copy of CVS as well.
|
|
|
|
* "cvs add" and "cvs remove" are a bit more verbose, telling you
|
|
what to do to add/remove your file permanently.
|
|
|
|
* We no longer mess with /dev/tty in "commit" and "add".
|
|
|
|
* More things are quiet with the -Q option set.
|
|
|
|
* New src/config.h option: If CVS_BADROOT is set, CVS will not
|
|
allow people really logged in as "root" to commit changes.
|
|
|
|
* "cvs diff" exits with a status of 0 if there were no diffs, 1 if
|
|
there were diffs, and 2 if there were errors.
|
|
|
|
* "cvs -n diff" is now supported so that you can still run diffs
|
|
even while in the middle of committing files.
|
|
|
|
* Handling of the CVS/Entries file is now much more robust.
|
|
|
|
* The default file ignore list now includes "*.so".
|
|
|
|
* "cvs import" did not expand '@' in the log message correctly. It
|
|
does now. Also, import now uses the ignore file facility
|
|
correctly.
|
|
|
|
Import will now tell you whether there were conflicts that need to
|
|
be resolved, and how to resolve them.
|
|
|
|
* "cvs log" has been changed so that you can "log" things that are
|
|
not a part of the current release (in the Attic).
|
|
|
|
* If you don't change the editor message on commit, CVS now prompts
|
|
you with the choice:
|
|
|
|
!)reuse this message unchanged for remaining dirs
|
|
|
|
which allows you to tell CVS that you have no intention of changing
|
|
the log message for the remainder of the commit.
|
|
|
|
* It is no longer necessary to have CVSROOT set if you are using
|
|
the -H option to get Usage information on the commands.
|
|
|
|
* Command argument changes:
|
|
checkout: -P handling changed as described above.
|
|
New -j option (up to 2 can be specified)
|
|
for doing rcsmerge kind of things on
|
|
checkout.
|
|
commit: -r option now supports committing to a
|
|
numeric or symbolic tags, with some
|
|
restrictions. Full consistency checks will
|
|
be done.
|
|
Added "-f logfile" option, which tells
|
|
commit to glean the log message from the
|
|
specified file, rather than invoking the
|
|
editor.
|
|
rtag: Added -b option to create a branch tag,
|
|
useful for creating a patch for a previous
|
|
release, or for forking development.
|
|
tag: Added -b option to create a branch tag,
|
|
useful for creating a patch for a previous
|
|
release, or for forking development.
|
|
update: New -j option (up to 2 can be specified)
|
|
for doing rcsmerge kind of things on
|
|
update.
|
|
|
|
Thu Jan 9 10:51:35 MST 1992 Jeff Polk (polk at BSDI.COM)
|
|
|
|
* Changes between CVS 1.3 Beta-1 and CVS 1.3 Beta-2
|
|
|
|
* Thanks to K. Richard Pixley at Cygnus we now have function
|
|
prototypes in all the files
|
|
|
|
* Some small changes to configure for portability. There have
|
|
been other portability problems submitted that have not been fixed
|
|
(Brian will be working on those). Additionally all __STDC__
|
|
tests have been modified to check __STDC__ against the constant 1
|
|
(this is what the Second edition of K&R says must be true).
|
|
|
|
* Lots of additional error checking for forked processes (run_exec)
|
|
(thanks again to K. Richard Pixley)
|
|
|
|
* Lots of miscellaneous bug fixes - including but certainly not
|
|
limited to:
|
|
various commit core dumps
|
|
various update core dumps
|
|
bogus results from status with numeric sticky tags
|
|
commitprog used freed memory
|
|
Entries file corruption caused by No_Difference
|
|
commit to revision broken (now works if branch exists)
|
|
ignore file processing broken for * and !
|
|
ignore processing didn't handle memory reasonably
|
|
miscellaneous bugs in the recursion processor
|
|
file descriptor leak in ParseInfo
|
|
CVSROOT.adm->CVSROOT rename bug
|
|
lots of lint fixes
|
|
|
|
* Reformatted all the code in src (with GNU indent) and then
|
|
went back and fixed prototypes, etc since indent gets confused. The
|
|
rationale is that it is better to do it sooner than later and now
|
|
everything is consistent and will hopefully stay that way.
|
|
The basic options to indent were: "-bad -bbb -bap -cdb -d0 -bl -bli0
|
|
-nce -pcs -cs -cli4 -di1 -nbc -psl -lp -i4 -ip4 -c41" and then
|
|
miscellaneous formatting fixes were applied. Note also that the
|
|
"-nfc1" or "-nfca" may be appropriate in files where comments have
|
|
been carefully formatted (e.g, modules.c).
|
|
|
|
Sat Dec 14 20:35:22 1991 Brian Berliner (berliner at sun.com)
|
|
|
|
* Changes between CVS 1.2 and CVS 1.3 Beta are described here.
|
|
|
|
* Lots of portability work. CVS now uses the GNU "configure"
|
|
script to dynamically determine the features provided by your
|
|
system. It probably is not foolproof, but it is better than
|
|
nothing. Please let me know of any portability problems. Some
|
|
file names were changed to fit within 14-characters.
|
|
|
|
* CVS has a new RCS parser that is much more flexible and
|
|
extensible. It should read all known RCS ",v" format files.
|
|
|
|
* Most of the commands now are fully recursive, rather than just
|
|
operating on the current directory alone. This includes "commit",
|
|
which makes it real easy to do an "atomic" commit of all the
|
|
changes made to a CVS hierarchy of sources. Most of the commands
|
|
also correctly handle file names that are in directories other than
|
|
".", including absolute path names. Commands now accept the "-R"
|
|
option to force recursion on (though it is always the default now)
|
|
and the "-l" option to force recursion off, doing just "." and not
|
|
any sub-directories.
|
|
|
|
* CVS supports many of the features provided with the RCS 5.x
|
|
distribution - including the new "-k" keyword expansion options. I
|
|
recommend using RCS 5.x (5.6 is the current official RCS version)
|
|
and GNU diff 1.15 (or later) distributions with CVS.
|
|
|
|
* Checking out files with symbolic tags/dates is now "sticky", in
|
|
that CVS remembers the tag/date used for each file (and directory)
|
|
and will use that tag/date automatically on the next "update" call.
|
|
This stickyness also holds for files checked out with the the new
|
|
RCS 5.x "-k" options.
|
|
|
|
* The "cvs diff" command now recognizes all of the rcsdiff 5.x
|
|
options. Unidiff format is available by installing the GNU
|
|
diff 1.15 distribution.
|
|
|
|
* The old "CVS.adm" directories created on checkout are now called
|
|
"CVS" directories, to look more like "RCS" and "SCCS". Old CVS.adm
|
|
directories are automagically converted to CVS directories. The
|
|
old "CVSROOT.adm" directory within the source repository is
|
|
automagically changed into a "CVSROOT" directory as well.
|
|
|
|
* Symbolic links in the source repository are fully supported ONLY
|
|
if you use RCS 5.6 or later and (of course) your system supports
|
|
symlinks.
|
|
|
|
* A history database has been contributed which maintains the
|
|
history of certain CVS operations, as well as providing a wide array
|
|
of querying options.
|
|
|
|
* The "cvs" program has a "-n" option which can be used with the
|
|
"update" command to show what would be updated without actually
|
|
doing the update, like: "cvs -n update". All usage statements
|
|
have been cleaned up and made more verbose.
|
|
|
|
* The module database parsing has been rewritten. The new format
|
|
is compatible with the old format, but with much more
|
|
functionality. It allows modules to be created that grab pieces or
|
|
whole directories from various different parts of your source
|
|
repository. Module-relative specifications are also correctly
|
|
recognized now, like "cvs checkout module/file.c".
|
|
|
|
* A configurable template can be specified such that on a "commit",
|
|
certain directories can supply a template that the user must fill
|
|
before completing the commit operation.
|
|
|
|
* A configurable pre-commit checking program can be specified which
|
|
will run to verify that a "commit" can happen. This feature can be
|
|
used to restrict certain users from changing certain pieces of the
|
|
source repository, or denying commits to the entire source
|
|
repository.
|
|
|
|
* The new "cvs export" command is much like "checkout", but
|
|
establishes defaults suitable for exporting code to others (expands
|
|
out keywords, forces the use of a symbolic tag, and does not create
|
|
"CVS" directories within the checked out sources.
|
|
|
|
* The new "cvs import" command replaces the deprecated "checkin"
|
|
shell script and is used to import sources into CVS control. It is
|
|
also much faster for the first-time import. Some algorithmic
|
|
improvements have also been made to reduce the number of
|
|
conflicting files on next-time imports.
|
|
|
|
* The new "cvs admin" command is basically an interface to the
|
|
"rcs" program. (Not yet implemented very well).
|
|
|
|
* Signal handling (on systems with BSD or POSIX signals) is much
|
|
improved. Interrupting CVS now works with a single interrupt!
|
|
|
|
* CVS now invokes RCS commands by direct fork/exec rather than
|
|
calling system(3). This improves performance by removing a call to
|
|
the shell to parse the arguments.
|
|
|
|
* Support for the .cvsignore file has been contributed. CVS will
|
|
now show "unknown" files as "? filename" as the result of an "update"
|
|
command. The .cvsignore file can be used to add files to the
|
|
current list of ignored files so that they won't show up as unknown.
|
|
|
|
* Command argument changes:
|
|
cvs: Added -l to turn off history logging.
|
|
Added -n to show what would be done without actually
|
|
doing anything.
|
|
Added -q/-Q for quiet and really quiet settings.
|
|
Added -t to show debugging trace.
|
|
add: Added -k to allow RCS 5.x -k options to be specified.
|
|
admin: New command; an interface to rcs(1).
|
|
checkout: Added -A to reset sticky tags/date/options.
|
|
Added -N to not shorten module paths.
|
|
Added -R option to force recursion.
|
|
Changed -p (prune empty directories) to -P option.
|
|
Changed -f option; forcing tags match is now default.
|
|
Added -p option to checkout module to standard output.
|
|
Added -s option to cat the modules db with status.
|
|
Added -d option to checkout in the specified directory.
|
|
Added -k option to use RCS 5.x -k support.
|
|
commit: Removed -a option; use -l instead.
|
|
Removed -f option.
|
|
Added -l option to disable recursion.
|
|
Added -R option to force recursion.
|
|
If no files specified, commit is recursive.
|
|
diff: Now recognizes all RCS 5.x rcsdiff options.
|
|
Added -l option to disable recursion.
|
|
Added -R option to force recursion.
|
|
history: New command; displays info about CVS usage.
|
|
import: Replaces "checkin" shell script; imports sources
|
|
under CVS control. Ignores files on the ignore
|
|
list (see -I option or .cvsignore description above).
|
|
export: New command; like "checkout", but w/special options
|
|
turned on by default to facilitate exporting sources.
|
|
join: Added -B option to join from base of the branch;
|
|
join now defaults to only joining with the top two
|
|
revisions on the branch.
|
|
Added -k option for RCS 5.x -k support.
|
|
log: Supports all RCS 5.x options.
|
|
Added -l option to disable recursion.
|
|
Added -R option to force recursion.
|
|
patch: Changed -f option; forcing tags match is now default.
|
|
Added -c option to force context-style diffs.
|
|
Added -u option to support unidiff-style diffs.
|
|
Added -V option to support RCS specific-version
|
|
keyword expansion formats.
|
|
Added -R option to force recursion.
|
|
remove: No option changes. It's a bit more verbose.
|
|
rtag: Equivalent to the old "cvs tag" command.
|
|
No option changes. It's a lot faster for re-tag.
|
|
status: New output formats with more information.
|
|
Added -l option to disable recursion.
|
|
Added -R option to force recursion.
|
|
Added -v option to show symbolic tags for files.
|
|
tag: Functionality changed to tag checked out files
|
|
rather than modules; use "rtag" command to get the
|
|
old "cvs tag" behaviour.
|
|
update: Added -A to reset sticky tags/date/options.
|
|
Changed -p (prune empty directories) to -P option.
|
|
Changed -f option; forcing tags match is now default.
|
|
Added -p option to checkout module to standard output.
|
|
Added -I option to add files to the ignore list.
|
|
Added -R option to force recursion.
|
|
|
|
Major Contributors:
|
|
|
|
* Jeff Polk <polk@bsdi.com> rewrote most of the grody code of CVS
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1.2. He made just about everything dynamic (by using malloc),
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added a generic hashed list manager, re-wrote the modules database
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parsing in a compatible - but extended way, generalized directory
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hierarchy recursion for virtually all the commands (including
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commit!), generalized the loginfo file to be used for pre-commit
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checks and commit templates, wrote a new and flexible RCS parser,
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fixed an uncountable number of bugs, and helped in the design of
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future CVS features. If there's anything gross left in CVS, it's
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probably my fault!
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* David G. Grubbs <dgg@odi.com> contributed the CVS "history" and
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"release" commands. As well as the ever-so-useful "-n" option of
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CVS which tells CVS to show what it would do, without actually
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doing it. He also contributed support for the .cvsignore file.
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* Paul Sander, HaL Computer Systems, Inc. <paul@hal.com> wrote and
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contributed the code in lib/sighandle.c. I added support for
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POSIX, BSD, and non-POSIX/non-BSD systems.
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* Free Software Foundation contributed the "configure" script and
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other compatibility support in the "lib" directory, which will help
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make CVS much more portable.
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* Many others have contributed bug reports and enhancement requests.
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Some have even submitted actual code which I have not had time yet
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to integrate into CVS. Maybe for the next release.
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* Thanks to you all!
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Wed Feb 6 10:10:58 1991 Brian Berliner (berliner at sun.com)
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* Changes from CVS 1.0 Patchlevel 1 to CVS 1.0 Patchlevel 2; also
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known as "Changes from CVS 1.1 to CVS 1.2".
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* Major new support with this release is the ability to use the
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recently-posted RCS 5.5 distribution with CVS 1.2. See below for
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other assorted bug-fixes that have been thrown in.
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* ChangeLog (new): Added Emacs-style change-log file to CVS 1.2
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release. Chronological description of changes between release.
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* README: Small fixes to installation instructions. My email
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address is now "berliner@sun.com".
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* src/Makefile: Removed "rcstime.h". Removed "depend" rule.
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* src/partime.c: Updated to RCS 5.5 version with hooks for CVS.
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* src/maketime.c: Updated to RCS 5.5 version with hooks for CVS.
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* src/rcstime.h: Removed from the CVS 1.2 distribution.
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Thanks to Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> for these changes.
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* src/checkin.csh: Support for RCS 5.5 parsing.
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Thanks to Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> for this change.
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* src/collect_sets.c (Collect_Sets): Be quieter if "-f" option is
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specified. When checking out files on-top-of other files that CVS
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doesn't know about, run a diff in the hopes that they are really
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the same file before aborting.
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* src/commit.c (branch_number): Fix for RCS 5.5 parsing.
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Thanks to Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> for this change.
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* src/commit.c (do_editor): Bug fix - fprintf missing argument
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which sometimes caused core dumps.
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* src/modules.c (process_module): Properly NULL-terminate
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update_dir[] in all cases.
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* src/no_difference.c (No_Difference): The wrong RCS revision was
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being registered in certain (strange) cases.
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* src/patch.c (get_rcsdate): New algorithm. No need to call
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maketime() any longer.
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Thanks to Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> for this change.
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* src/patchlevel.h: Increased patch level to "2".
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* src/subr.c (isdir, islink): Changed to compare stat mode bits
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correctly.
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* src/tag.c (tag_file): Added support for following symbolic links
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that are in the master source repository when tagging. Made tag
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somewhat quieter in certain cases.
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* src/update.c (update_process_lists): Unlink the user's file if it
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was put on the Wlist, meaning that the user's file is not modified
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and its RCS file has been removed by someone else.
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* src/update.c (update): Support for "cvs update dir" to correctly
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just update the argument directory "dir".
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* src/cvs.h: Fixes for RCS 5.5 parsing.
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* src/version_number.c (Version_Number): Fixes for parsing RCS 5.5
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and older RCS-format files.
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Thanks to Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> for these changes.
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* src/version_number.c (Version_Number): Bug fixes for "-f" option.
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Bug fixes for parsing with certain branch numbers. RCS
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revision/symbol parsing is much more solid now.
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Wed Feb 14 10:01:33 1990 Brian Berliner (berliner at sun.com)
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* Changes from CVS 1.0 Patchlevel 0 to CVS 1.0 Patchlevel 1; also
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known as "Changes from CVS 1.0 to CVS 1.1".
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* src/patch.c (get_rcsdate): Portability fix. Replaced call to
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timelocal() with call to maketime().
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Mon Nov 19 23:15:11 1990 Brian Berliner (berliner at prisma.com)
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* Sent CVS 1.0 release to comp.sources.unix moderator and FSF.
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* Special thanks to Dick Grune <dick@cs.vu.nl> for his work on the
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1986 version of CVS and making it available to the world. Dick's
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version is available on uunet.uu.net in the
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comp.sources.unix/volume6/cvs directory.
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