Re: Annotate of Log output wrong

[Hugh Gibson]

> Why is it again you are using the $Log:$ for anything anyway, i.e., 
> what is your purpose for having Log in your files? (often times this 
> group can come up with a much better way to get to the ends you desire.)

OK, good point. As manager of a team, I occasionally have needed (when 
using VSS [fx:spit] in a previous company) to track what was changed and 
why. With Log, a simple grep through the files was all that was needed.

I'm the first to admit that I'm not using the full features of CVS yet - 
like merging branches etc, so I haven't come across the issues that you 
describe.

And also, I'm only beginning to realise the full use of the annotate 
command. It provides what I need directly - to track down who changed a 
line of code. Then I can extract log comments from cvs for that revision 
and see why they were done. So probably I don't really need Log in the 
header anyway.

> It is only the comments that you can get back better using `cvs log` or
> cvs2cl.

Thanks for the tip. I downloaded cvs2cl but have some problems with it - 
even with the latest Perl (running under Windows 2000) the second line had 
problems. I commented it out; now I get output like:

....
server: Logging system/web
server: Logging system/web/cgi-bin
server: Logging system/webserver
server: Logging system/webserver/Widgets

but then it just hangs. No activity. I ran it with a blank command line, 
then tried --stdout but nothing happens. Any ideas? I speak Python/C++ but 
not Perl, so don't know the best way to go about debugging it.

If I can get this to run it would be great to set up the auto reports on 
checkins, like the gentoo site 
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/us-gentoo4/?dwzone=web;#
h13764

Hugh