CVS history access?

[Chuck Robey]

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John Nielsen wrote:
> I'm working on a machine learning project and I'd like to use the FreeBSD 
> src CVS commit history as a datasource. Is there a resource-friendly way 
> for me to download some or all of it? Format isn't too big an issue.
> 
> I tried a few "cvs history" commands against the anoncvs servers but get 
> this:
> cvs [history aborted]: cannot open history file: /home/ncvs/CVSROOT/history: 
> No such file or directory
> 
> I'm not too experienced with cvs so if I'm missing something let me know. 
> The Mailman archives for freebsd-cvs are one option, but I was hoping for 
> more of a direct approach if possible.
>

cvs log <filename> works, but I don't think that history has even been available
on any system I've ever had access to.  There's pretty good info available from
the "cvs log" command ... here's a few lines from "cvs log Makefile" from
usr/src/Makefile:

- ----------------------------
revision 1.114
date: 2005/12/02 01:17:20;  author: deraadt;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
do not enter lkm
- ----------------------------
revision 1.113
date: 2005/09/16 12:28:34;  author: jmc;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -2
use shell-neutral language (in a comment);

from ray lai;
ok krw@
- ----------------------------
revision 1.112
date: 2005/01/09 20:36:20;  author: espie;  state: Exp;  lines: +12 -282
move cross-stuff into its own file.
okay mickey@, niklas@



> Thanks,
> 
> JN
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