[evs] Does EVS remove some of CVS limitations?

Arthur Barrett arthur.barrett at march-hare.com
Wed Feb 6 19:24:58 GMT 2008


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Eric,

> What I mean by this, is in CVS, I find myself checking in files one at a 
> time so I can have proper log history as to what has changed between file 
> iterations.  This works really well for me when looking through history 
> and helps to know which files to select for comparison purposes, but it 
> doesn't let me know which set of files are all related to the same commit. 
> The only way around this so far, has been to select all related files for 
> a single commit, and then to go back and add to each file's log msg 
> individually.

CVSNT and EVS both support this, use "cvs ci -B 1234" where 1234 is the 
changeset number.  The changeset number can even be used in a merge...

Regards,


Arthur




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