[cvsnt] CVSNT 2.5.01 #1976 - 'cvs history' problems - 'No records selected'

[Thomas Singer]

> What would be the point of running that command though?

We understood the 'cvs history' documentation that way, that we can use it 
to get a list of added, removed or changed files since a certain date 
relatively fast. SmartCVS just uses this information to launch an rlog 
command for the effected directories, because running an rlog command on the 
whole repository (or the whole project) often is extremely slow (expensive 
operation on the server side).

> History *will* lose records on a busy server, so you can't rely on it. 

This is the first time I read that - is this a CVSNT "feature" or also valid 
for GNU CVS? Taking a look at the quasi-standard documentation Cederqvist 
(http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/cvs-1.11.20/cvs_16.html#SEC138) I can't find 
information, that one cannot rely on the output of the 'cvs history' command 
(I know, that one can run the server without keeping the history, but this 
is a different story).

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Best regards,
Thomas Singer
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Tony Hoyle schrieb:
> Thomas Singer wrote:
> 
>> Hi Tony,
>>
>> The same crash happens when invoked without the -f:
>>
>>> C:\temp\c>cvs -d :pserver:tom at localhost:f:/repository history -a -x 
>>> AMR smartcvs-tori
> 
> 
> What would be the point of running that command though?
> 
> History is not an accurate way of getting log information... use log for 
> that.  History *will* lose records on a busy server, so you can't rely 
> on it.
> 
> Tony