1 This "contrib" directory is a place holder for code/scripts sent to me
2 by contributors around the world. This README file will be kept
3 up-to-date from release to release. BUT, we must point out that these
4 contributions are really, REALLY UNSUPPORTED. In fact, we probably
5 don't even know what some of them really do. We certainly do not
6 guarantee to have tried them, or ported them to work with this CVS
7 distribution. If you have questions, your best bet is to contact the
8 original author, but you should not necessarily expect a reply, since
9 the author may not be available at the address given.
11 USE AT YOUR OWN RISK -- and all that stuff.
13 "Unsupported" also means that no one has volunteered to accept and check
14 in changes to this directory. So submissions for new scripts to add
15 here are unlikely to be accepted. Suggested changes to the existing
16 scripts here conceivably might, but that isn't clear either, unless of
17 course they come from the original author of the script.
19 If you have some software that works with CVS that you wish to offer it
20 is suggested that you make it available by FTP or HTTP and then announce
21 it on the info-cvs mailing list.
23 There is a web page of software related to CVS at the following URL which
24 would presumably be willing to list your software.
26 http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs-index.html
28 An attempt at a table of Contents for this directory:
32 check_cvs A perl script to check an entire repository for
34 Contributed by Donald Sharp <sharpd@cisco.com>.
36 clmerge A perl script to handle merge conflicts in GNU
37 style ChangeLog files .
38 Contributed by Tom Tromey <tromey@busco.lanl.gov>.
40 cln_hist A perl script to compress your
41 $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/history file, as it can grow quite
42 large after extended use.
43 Contributed by David G. Grubbs <dgg@ksr.com>
45 commit_prep A perl script, to be combined with log_accum.pl, to
46 log_accum provide for a way to combine the individual log
47 messages of a multi-directory "commit" into a
48 single log message, and mail the result somewhere.
49 Can also do other checks for $Id and that you are
50 committing the correct revision of the file.
51 Read the comments carefully.
52 Contributed by David Hampton <hampton@cisco.com>.
54 cvs2vendor A shell script to move changes from a repository
55 that was started without a vendor branch to one
56 that has a vendor branch.
57 Contributed by Greg A. Woods <woods@planix.com>.
59 cvs_acls A perl script that implements Access Control Lists
60 by using the "commitinfo" hook provided with the
62 Contributed by David G. Grubbs <dgg@ksr.com>.
64 cvscheck Identifies files added, changed, or removed in a
65 cvscheck.man checked out CVS tree; also notices unknown files.
66 Contributed by Lowell Skoog <fluke!lowell@uunet.uu.net>
68 cvshelp.man An introductory manual page written by Lowell Skoog
69 <fluke!lowell@uunet.uu.net>. It is most likely
70 out-of-date relative to CVS 1.3, but still may be
73 debug_check_log A shell script to help analyze sanity check failures.
74 Contributed by Derek R. Price
75 <derek.price@openavenue.com>
77 descend A shell script that can be used to recursively
78 descend.man descend through a directory. In CVS 1.2, this was
79 very useful, since many of the commands were not
80 recursive. In CVS 1.3 (and later), however, most of
81 the commands are recursive. However, this may still
83 Contributed by Lowell Skoog <fluke!lowell@uunet.uu.net>
85 dirfns A shar file which contains some code that might
86 help your system support opendir/readdir/closedir,
87 if it does not already.
88 Copied from the C-News distribution.
90 intro.doc A user's view of what you need to know to get
92 Contributed by <Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl>.
94 log A perl script suitable for including in your
95 $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/loginfo file for logging commit
96 changes. Includes the RCS revision of the change
98 Contributed by Kevin Samborn <samborn@sunrise.com>.
100 log_accum See commit_prep.
102 mfpipe Another perl script for logging. Allows you to
103 pipe the log message to a file and/or send mail
105 Contributed by John Clyne <clyne@niwot.scd.ucar.edu>.
107 pvcs2rcs A perl script to convert a PVCS tree to an RCS tree.
109 rcs-to-cvs Script to import sources that may have been under
111 Contributed by Per Cederqvist <ceder@lysator.liu.se>.
113 rcs2log A shell script to create a ChangeLog-format file
114 given only a set of RCS files.
115 Contributed by Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>.
117 rcs2sccs A shell script to convert simple RCS files into
118 SCCS files, originally gleaned off the network
119 somewhere (originally by "kenc") and modified by
120 Jerry Jelinek <jerry@rmtc.Central.Sun.COM> and
121 Brian Berliner <berliner@sun.com> to increase
122 robustness and add support for one-level of branches.
124 rcslock A perl script that can be added to your commitinfo
125 file that tries to determine if your RCS file is
126 currently locked by someone else, as might be the
127 case for a binary file.
128 Contributed by John Rouillard <rouilj@cs.umb.edu>.
130 sccs2rcs A C-shell script that can convert (some) SCCS files
131 into RCS files, retaining the info contained in the
132 SCCS file (like dates, author, and log message).
133 Contributed by Ken Cox <kenstir@viewlogic.com>.