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Tony Hoyle wrote:
>>> No need to do that, just use the @commitid syntax.
>>>
>>> eg. cvs -q log -SR -r@{commitID}
>>> or cvs diff -r@<{commitID} -r@{commitID}
>>
>> Interesting, thanks :)
>>
>> It seems the real command would look like
>>
>> cvs -q log -SR -r at 8804650d0eb1722
>>
>> (At least to me this wasn't completely obvious.)
>>
>> Is there more of this type? Is this somewhere documented? (A search through
>> the manual for "commitid" or "commit id" didn't bring up anything
>> relevant.)
>>
> Pretty much anywhere you can use a tag you can use a commitid.. we
> probably should compile a list of 'useful' commands like that - it's in
> the documentation but you have to know what you're looking for as it's a
> bit scattered.
I've added to the scatter; it's now in the Wiki FAQ :)
Where in the documentation is this mentioned?
> There's the same kind of thing for bugids too except that's normally
> done as a separate option (maybe it shouldn't be... for evs there's the
> chance to change it).
Is there a chance that some of these are being used together (so to speak
as orthogonal concepts)? Say a tag that's on some files of a bugid but not
on others, so that you want to use tag and bugid together. Probably rare...
Gerhard