Is there any way to list all the files that have changed between two tags in CVS?
Every time we do a release we apply a tag to all the files in that release. I want to f
I suppose this command would help:
cvs diff -N -c -r RELEASE_1_0 -r RELEASE_1_1 > diffs
where RELEASE_1_0
and RELEASE_1_1
are the names of your tags.
You can find a little more information on cvs diff command here
plus it should be fairly simple to create a script to make report more suitbable for your needs, ex: number of files changed, created deleted etc. As far as I know the most common cvs GUI tools (wincvs and tortoise) do not provide something like this out of the box.
Hope it helps ;)
DLira's method gives a lot of detail, including all the changes.
To just get a list of files, this works:
cvs diff -N -c -r RELEASE_1_0 -r RELEASE_1_1 | grep "Index:" > diffs
To get a list of files that have changed between one version and another using the standard cvs commands:
cvs -q log -NSR -rV-1-0-69::V-1-0-70 2>/dev/null >log.txt
Or alternatively, to get a list of commit comments just drop the -R
:
cvs -q log -NS -rV-1-0-69::V-1-0-70 2>/dev/null >log.txt
Where you replace V-1-0-69
and V-1-0-70
with the revisions you're comparing.
cvs log -d ">=DATE" -N -S -R > cvs.log
I prefer using rdiff
and -s
option
cvs rdiff -s -r RELEASE_1_0 -r RELEASE_1_1 module > diffs
rdiff
does not require a sandbox; -s
gives you a summary of the changes.
The best tool I've found for this is a perl script called cvs2cl.pl. This can generate a change list in several different formats. It has many different options, but I've used the tag-to-tag options like this:
cvs2cl.pl --delta dev_release_1_2_3:dev_release_1_6_8
or
cvs2cl.pl --delta dev_release_1_2_3:HEAD
I have also done comparisons using dates with the same tool.