Searching CVS commits

[Kent Stewart]

On Friday 28 May 2004 01:01 pm, Kevin A. Pieckiel wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 08:43:33PM +0200, Andreas Kohn wrote:
> > cvs can't provide you with that kind of information, because it
> > doesn't remember it (cvs works on file-by-file base). But, it can
> > tell you when the 1.337 commit to vfs_syscalls.c happened.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > You can then use the archive of the cvs-src mailing list at
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2004-February to find
> > the commit:
> >
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2004-February/018554.htm
> >l
> >
> > That should tell you all modified files in this commit.
>
> That's EXACTLY what I was looking for!  That's a HUGE help.  I didn't
> even know the info in the cvs-src mailing list existed.  Thanks a
> bunch.
>

The history is always available using cvsweb.cgi such as

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/kern/vfs_syscalls.c

Back up to the top and bookmark it.

Kent

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