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Date:      Fri, 28 May 2004 14:20:45 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        "Kevin A. Pieckiel" <pieckiel+freebsd-questions@sdf.lonestar.org>
Subject:   Re: Searching CVS commits
Message-ID:  <200405281420.45943.kstewart@owt.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040528200143.GA26702@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG>
References:  <20040517192705.GA7889@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> <1084905812.91867.6.camel@klamath.syndrom23.de> <20040528200143.GA26702@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG>

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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

-- 
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html



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