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copied!<p>We can easily do this using ViewVC (or ViewCVS as it was called formerly). What it does is build a SQL database of all files and their commits (with comments and authors) that you can easily query in many ways.</p> <p>You can download it from <a href="http://www.viewvc.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.viewvc.org/</a>. You will have to set up a MySQL server to store the data and have access to the physical repository directory on the CVS server to import your existing repository commits via the <code>cvsdbadmin</code> tool:</p> <pre><code>cvsdbadmin rebuild /var/lib/cvs </code></pre> <p>where <code>/var/lib/cvs</code> is your repository location. The database connection info is stored in the ViewVC config file.</p> <p>Depending on the repository size this might run anywhere from a few seconds to several hours. Once it is finished, you can use regular SQL query tools to find out all sorts of information about your commits - we use it to very quickly generate change logs. Using a <a href="http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/cvs-1.11.21/cvs_18.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer" title="CVS loginfo">CVS loginfo script</a> (also included with ViewVC) we update the database on-the-fly whenever someone commits a file to CVS.</p> <p>It can also be very helpful if you committed something by accident (see <a href="http://dschneller.blogspot.com/2007/09/value-of-cvs-commit-database.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer" title="this blog post">this blog post</a>); as CVS commits are not transactional this can be a tough one to figure out.</p>

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