[cvsnt] Log, rlog, and history

[Tony Hoyle]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 07:20:03 -0500, "Keith D. Zimmerman"
<kzimmerman at eshcom.com> wrote:

>I'm working on a few scripts/webpages here for our guys to view
>history...
>
>What is the difference between the log/rlog commands and the history
>command?  Am I correct in thinking that history reads the
>CVSROOT/history file, while log/rlog look through the actual *,v files
>in the repository?

That sounds about right.

>Also, having trouble getting the cvs history command to do what I
>want...  How does the '-m <module>' option work?  This command
>	cvs -d :sspi:server2:/ewcode history -m Current
>produces this output
>	No records selected.
>Why?

No idea (I've never heard of that option until a few seconds ago).  It looks
like it's case sensitive, so you might have to look at what's in the history
records to get a match.

Tony