6 * CVS now uses version 1.2.3 of the ZLib compression libraries in order to
7 avoid two recently announced security vulnerabilities in them. Both may be
8 used for denial of service attacks and one may reportedly allow execution of
9 arbitrary code, though this is not confirmed. Please see the CERT
10 vulnerabilities advisories #238678 <http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/238678> &
11 #680620 <http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/680620> for more.
15 * Thanks to Conrad Pino <conrad@pino.com>, a hang in the Windows client, which
16 had pretty much rendered the client useless, has been fixed.
18 * A minor problem preventing build of the Kerberos4 client has been fixed.
20 * The path to the config file may be set as an argument to the CVS server
23 * Sections of directives specific to one or more repositories and not others
24 may now be specified in the config file.
26 * %{sV} format strings are now available to the verifymsg trigger, similar to
27 the %{stVv} available to loginfo.
29 * `cvs watch add' on an empty directory no longer clears watchers, and
30 specifying a directory for `cvs watch add' now (correctly) sets default
33 * Missing CVSROOT/history files will now cause CVS to attempt to create one.
34 To suppress history logging, set LogHistory equal to the empty string in
37 * There are several new options available in CVSROOT/config. These are
38 TmpDir, HistoryLogPath, HistorySearchPath, MinCompressionLevel, &
39 MaxCompressionLevel. Please see the manual for more.
41 * CVS on Solaris 10 was refusing to parse command options. This has been
44 * The Windows client now creates locks compatible with older versions of CVS by
45 default. This should only be relevant if your client is accessing a local
46 repository concurrently with another, older client. If you would like to
47 disable compatibility mode (because it is slightly faster), edit the
48 LOCK_COMPATIBILITY flag in windows-NT/config.h and recompile.
50 * Misc efficiency and portability improvements.
54 * Thanks to Serguei E. Leontiev <lse@CryptoPro.ru>, CVS with Kerberos 5 GSSAPI
55 should automatically link on FreeBSD 5.x. (bug #14639).
57 * Thanks to Rahul Bhargava <rahul@wandisco.com>, heavily loaded systems
58 suffering from a disk crash or power failure will not lose data they claimed
61 * CVS server now handles conflict markers in Entry requests as documented.
63 * CVS now remembers that binary file merge conflicts occurred until the
64 timestamp of the updated binary file changes.
66 * CVS client now saves some bandwidth by not sending the contents of files
67 with conflicts to the server when it isn't needed.
69 * CVS now does correct locking during import.
71 * A problem where the server could block indefinitely waiting for an EOF from
72 the client when compression was enabled has been fixed.
74 * `cvs diff' no longer splits its arguments on spaces.
76 * Thanks to an old report and patch from Stewart Brodie <stewart@eh.org>, a
77 potential crash in response to a corrupt RCS file has been fixed.
79 * CVS now locks the history and val-tags files before writing to them.
80 Especially with large repositories, users should no longer see new warnings
81 about corrupt history records when using the `cvs history' command. Existing
82 corrupt history records will still need to be removed manually. val-tags
83 corruption should have had less obvious effects, but removing the
84 CVSROOT/val-tags file and allowing a 1.11.21 or later version of CVS to
85 regenerate it may eliminate a few odd behaviors and possibly cause a slight
86 speed up of read transactions in large repositories over time.
90 * The RPM spec file works again with the most modern versions of `rpm'. It
91 also finds the correct version of install-sh when building the CVS with
96 * We've standardized on Automake 1.9.6 to get some at new features that make
97 our jobs easier. See the HACKING file for more on using the autotools with
100 Changes from 1.12.11 to 1.12.12:
101 ********************************
103 SERVER SECURITY FIXES
105 * Thanks to a report from Alen Zukich <alen.zukich@klocwork.com>, several minor
106 security issues have been addressed. One was a buffer overflow that is
107 potentially serious but which may not be exploitable, assigned CAN-2005-0753
108 by the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Project
109 <http://www.cve.mitre.org>. Other fixes resulting from Alen's report include
110 repair of an arbitrary free with no known exploit and several plugged memory
111 leaks and potentially freed NULL pointers which may have been exploitable for
112 a denial of service attack.
114 * Thanks to a report from Craig Monson <craig@malachiarts.com>, minor
115 potential vulnerabilities in the contributed Perl scripts have been fixed.
116 The confirmed vulnerability could allow the execution of arbitrary code on
117 the CVS server, but only if a user already had commit access and if one of
118 the contrib scripts was installed improperly, a condition which should have
119 been quickly visible to any administrator. The complete description of the
120 problem is here: <https://ccvs.cvshome.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=224>. If
121 you were making use of any of the contributed trigger scripts on a CVS
122 server, you should probably still replace them with the new versions, to be
125 Unfortunately, our fix is incomplete. Taint-checking has been enabled in all
126 the contributed Perl scripts intended to be run as trigger scripts, but no
127 attempt has been made to ensure that they still run in taint mode. You will
128 most likely have to tweak the scripts in some way to make them run. Please
129 send any patches you find necessary back to <bug-cvs@nongnu.org> so that we
130 may again ship fully enabled scripts in the future.
132 You should also make sure that any home-grown Perl scripts that you might
133 have installed as CVS triggers also have taint-checking enabled. This can be
134 done by adding `-T' on the scripts' #! lines. Please try running
135 `perldoc perlsec' if you would like more information on general Perl security
140 * Thanks to a report from Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>, a problem that caused
141 CVS to stop with broken assertions in certain time zones when daylight
142 savings is in effect has been fixed.
144 * A problem where a proxy server could fail to notice that its primary closed
145 the connection has been fixed.
147 * Failures to open the CVS_CLIENT_LOG, CVS_SERVER_LOG, and CVS_SECONDARY_LOG
150 * CVS's client and server IO buffers now rely on a GNULIB modules for memory
151 management rather than taking on the task themseleves. This should be faster
152 on any system but may increase memory usage noticably on systems without the
153 POSIX mmap() function. Benchmark reports to <bug-cvs@gnulib.org> would be
156 * Some more GNULIB functions have been imported and/or updated for portability
157 reasons. This change should not be visible to most users, though CVS may now
158 compile on a few more platforms.
160 * CVS creates a unique session id that gets written to the RCS files during
161 import and commit. When committing several files at once, they all get the
162 same 'commitid'. The commitid becomes visible with log and status commands,
163 and is derived and compatible with the cvsnt project.
165 * CVS once again compiles correctly configured with various combinations of
166 --disable-client, --disable-server, and --disable-proxy.
168 * CVS now accepts the <tag>:<date> format, which has long been acceptable as an
169 argument to -j options, in most places where <tag> used to be acceptable. An
170 empty tag in this format (e.g. ":<date>"), which used to be rejected, is now
171 interpreted as specifying a date on the trunk.
173 * CVS now uses ZLib 1.2.2. This fixes the minor vulnerability described here:
174 <http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/238678>, as well as some other minor bugs we
175 are not aware of bug reports for in conjunction with CVS.
177 * `cvs -n release' now does what it should (see changes to the info-cleanup-0
178 test in sanity.sh for more).
180 * The configure script now prefers `ssh' to `rsh' when determining a default
181 executable to use when connecting via the :ext: method.
183 * A problem in the compression buffer that was causing some incompatibility
184 with some 3rd party CVS clients when compression was enabled has been fixed.
186 * Some files missing from the distribution have been added or readded. The
187 missing files were mostly development support files, with a few docs and
188 .cvsignore files thrown in.
190 * The incomplete Brazillian Portugese translation of the CVS manual is now
191 included in the distribution.
195 * Misc bug and documentation fixes.
197 * CVS now detects write errors on standard output. Before, e.g.,
198 `cvs update -p FILE > /dev/full' would fail to report the write error.
200 * Thanks to a report and a patch from Georg Scwharz <georg.scwarz@freenet.de>
201 CVS now builds without error on IRIX 5.3
205 * We've standardized on Automake 1.9.5 to get some at new features that make
206 our jobs easier. See the HACKING file for more on using the autotools with
209 Changes from 1.12.10 to 1.12.11:
210 ********************************
214 * Thanks to Conrad Pino <conrad@pino.com>, the Windows build works once again.
216 * CVSROOT methods and option names are now case insensitive
218 * CVSROOT methods :ext: and :fork: now support the CVS_SERVER option.
220 * CVSROOT method :ext: now supports the CVS_RSH and Redirect options.
222 * Date handling has been improved slightly.
224 * Miscellaneous bug fixes.
226 * Miscellaneous documentation fixes.
230 * An intermittant assertion failure in checkout has been fixed.
232 * Thanks to a report from Chris Bohn <cbohn@rrinc.com>, all the source files
233 needed to build on Windows are now included in the source distribution.
235 Changes from 1.12.9 to 1.12.10:
236 *******************************
240 * The date formats which CVS accepts are now documented more fully in the
243 * CVS commands which accept dates now understand some more time zones,
244 including those which are some hours plus some fraction of an hour off of
245 universal coordinated time.
247 * `cvs ls filename' no longer causes an assertion failure.
249 * The maximum length of the discovered comment leader used in a Log keyword
250 substitution is now limited to 20 characters by default. If a longer leader
251 is discovered, then the keyword is not expanded. This default behavior may
252 be altered using the new MaxCommentLeaderLength & UseArchiveCommentLeader
255 * Commit messages once again include the full relative path to the file being
258 * Thanks to funding from Juniper Networks <http://juniper.net>, "write proxy"
259 functionality has been added to the CVS server. Write proxy functionality
260 allows any of multiple, read-only "secondary" servers to relay write requests
261 from clients to a single primary CVS server, allowing for a massive
262 redistribution of server load which is transparent to all known CVS clients.
264 * Thanks to funding from Juniper Networks <http://juniper.net>, some code has
265 been added which second-guesses the system file cache for a performance
268 * The loginfo scripting hook now runs after the administrative files in CVSROOT
269 are rebuilt, rather than before.
271 * Misc error message improvements.
273 * Thanks to funding from Juniper Networks <http://juniper.net>, new scripting
274 hooks have been added to the CVS server. These are the postadmin, posttag,
275 and postwatch hooks. See the manual for more info.
277 * Thanks to funding from Juniper Networks <http://juniper.net>, all the
278 existing scripting hooks may now optionally be passed a command name
281 * Thanks to funding from Juniper Networks <http://juniper.net>, new tags are
282 cached in the val-tags file at the time of tag creation.
284 * Thanks to a patch from Brian Murphy <brian@murphy.dk>, CVS now supports PAM
287 * Thanks to a report from Brian Murphy <brian@murphy.dk>, the demo PAM
288 configuration files mentioned in the manual are actually being distributed.
290 * Thanks again to Bart Robinson <lomew@pobox.com>, `cvs log' & `cvs ls' now
291 actually output local times when the server is version 1.12.9 or greater and
292 the client is version 1.12.10 or greater.
294 * The CVS server now sends paths to files relative to the repository. CVS
295 clients have been able to handle this since at least the 10 year old
296 CVS 1.9.2 release, so no attempt at verifying compatibility of clients has
297 been made. This saves a small amount of bandwidth and may enable some future
300 * The CVS client will send relative Directory requests if the server claims to
301 support it. This saves a very small amount of bandwidth but may enable some
302 future functionality.
304 * "cvs import" now has a new option, `-X', which causes new files to be
305 imported in a way that they appear only on the vendor branch, and do not
306 automatically appear on the main trunk.
308 This option may be made the default on a repository-wide basis
309 using the new ImportNewFilesToVendorBranchOnly=yes option in
312 * contrib/cvs_acls.in has been revised. Users of the old version will
313 want to upgrade to use the new format. See the documentation in
314 contrib/cvs_acls.html for more information.
316 * Thanks to Dan Peterson <dbpete@aol.com>, the contrib/validate_repo script now
317 accepts and logs corrupted revision numbers in RCS archives.
321 * Thanks to a report from Gottfried Ganssauge <gotti@cvshome.org>, CVS no
322 longer exits when it encounters links pointing to paths containing more
325 * Thanks to a report from Dan Peterson <dbpete@aol.com>, error messages from
326 GSSAPI servers are no longer truncated.
328 * Thanks to a report from Dan Peterson <dbpete@aol.com>, attempts to resurrect
329 a file on the trunk that was added on a branch no longer causes an assertion
332 * Thanks to a report from Dan Peterson <dbpete@aol.com>, imports to branches
333 like "1.1." no longer create corrupt RCS archives.
335 * Thanks to a report from Chris Bohn <cbohn@rrinc.com>, links from J.C. Hamlin
336 <jchamlin@ibsys.com>, and code posted by Jonathan Gilligan, we think we have
337 finally corrected the Windows "red-file" (daylight savings time) bug once and
340 * Thanks to a patch from Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>, the
341 log_accum.pl script should no longer elicit warnings from Perl 5.8.5.
343 * The r* commands (rlog, rls, etc.) can once again handle requests to run
344 against the entire repository (e.g. `cvs rlog .'). Thanks go to Dan Peterson
345 <dbpete@aol.com> for the report.
347 * A problem where the attempted access of files via tags beginning with spaces
348 could cause the CVS server to hang has been fixed. This was a particular
349 problem with WinCVS clients because users would sometimes accidentally
350 include spaces in tags pasted into a dialog box. This fix also altered some
351 of the error messages generated by the use of invalid tags. Thanks go to Dan
352 Peterson <dbpete@aol.com> for the report.
354 * Thanks to James E Wilson <wilson@specifixinc.com> for a bug fix to
355 modules processing "gcc-core -a !gcc/f gcc" will no longer exclude
356 gcc/fortran by mistake.
358 * Thanks to Conrad Pino <conrad@pino.com>, the Windows build works once again.
360 * Misc updates to the manual.
364 * We've standardized on Automake 1.9.3 to get some at new features that make
365 our jobs easier. See the note below on the Autoconf upgrade for more
368 * We've standardized on Autoconf version 2.59 to get presumed bug fixes and
369 features, but nothing specific. Mostly, once we decide to upgrade one of the
370 autotools we just figure it'll save time later to grab the most current
371 versions of the others too. See the HACKING file for more on using the
374 Changes from 1.12.8 to 1.12.9:
375 ******************************
377 SERVER SECURITY FIXES
379 * Thanks to Stefan Esser & Sebastian Krahmer, several potential security
380 problems have been fixed. The ones which were considered dangerous enough
381 to catalogue were assigned issue numbers CAN-2004-0416, CAN-2004-0417, &
382 CAN-2004-0418 by the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Project. Please
383 see <http://www.cve.mitre.org> for more information.
385 * A potential buffer overflow vulnerability in the server has been fixed.
386 This addresses the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Project's issue
387 #CAN-2004-0414. Please see <http://www.cve.mitre.org> for more information.
391 * `cvs log' & `cvs ls' now output local times when both the server and client
392 are 1.12.9 or greater. (Thanks to Bart Robinson <lomew@pobox.com>.)
396 * The windows-NT/config.h.in file is now generated dynamically from the
397 root config.h.in file and a few inputs in the windows-NT directory in hopes
398 of keeping it more in sync with the root config.h.in file.
400 Changes from 1.12.7 to 1.12.8:
401 ******************************
403 SERVER SECURITY FIXES
405 * A potential buffer overflow vulnerability in the server has been fixed.
406 Prior to this patch, a malicious client could potentially use carefully
407 crafted server requests to run arbitrary programs on the CVS server machine.
408 This addresses the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Project's issue
409 #CAN-2004-0396. Please see <http://www.cve.mitre.org> for more information.
413 * Some redundant output generated by the `cvs commit' command has been removed.
415 * Most output from the `cvs commit' command is suppressed when the -Q global
418 * Repository directory browsing via `cvs rls' & `cvs ls' commands. Expect
419 changes in the long format output soon. The "entries" format output should
420 remain fairly stable for automated parsers.
422 * Glob matches, as specified in ignore lists and wrapper options, now conform
423 to the POSIX.2 specification for fnmatch on all platforms.
425 * The Windows MS Visual C++ project files, including the nmake build files,
426 are now generated with MSVC++ 6.0, but should still work with MSVC++ 5.0.
430 * The cvs.1 man page is now generated automatically from a section of the CVS
433 * Thanks to a report from Mark Andrews at the Internet Systems Consortium, the
434 :ext: connection method no longer relies on a transparent transport that uses
435 an argument processor that can handle arbitrary ordering of options and other
436 arguments when using a username other than the caller's.
438 * Thanks to Ken Raeburn at MIT, directory deletion, whether via `cvs release'
439 or empty directory pruning, now works on network shares under Windows XP.
441 Changes from 1.12.6 to 1.12.7:
442 ******************************
444 SERVER SECURITY ISSUES
446 * Piped checkouts of paths above $CVSROOT no longer work. Previously, clients
447 could have requested the contents of RCS archive files anywhere on a CVS
448 server. This addresses CVE issue CAN-2004-0405. Please see
449 <http://www.cve.mitre.org> for more information.
451 CLIENT SECURITY ISSUES
453 * Clients now check paths from the server to verify that they are within one of
454 the sandboxes the user requested be updated. Previously, a trojan server
455 could have written or overwritten files anywhere the user had access,
456 presenting a serious security risk. This addresses CVE issue CAN-2004-1080.
457 Please see <http://www.cve.mitre.org> for more information.
461 * Imported the most recent version of regex from GNULIB, which actually means
462 some systems will use now their native regex functions instead of compiling
463 CVS's. Users should notice no changes in CVS responses to regular
464 expressions. If you do, please report them to <bug-cvs@gnu.org>.
466 * CVS now accepts the location of HTTP tunnel web proxies as part of the
467 CVSROOT string. Actually using a proxy remains untested. Please report
468 problems and successes to <bug-cvs@gnu.org>.
470 * Configure no longer checks the $TMPDIR, $TMP, & $TEMP variables to set the
471 default temporary directory.
473 * CVS on Cygwin correctly handles X:\ style paths.
475 * Import now uses backslash rather than slash on Windows when checking for
476 "CVS" directories to ignore in import commands.
478 * Relative paths containing up-references (`..') should now work in
479 client/server mode (client fix).
481 * A race condition between the ordering of messages from CVS and messages from
482 called scripts in client/server mode has been removed (server fix).
484 * The check_cvs and cvscheck scripts in the contrib directory have been renamed
485 validate_repo and sandbox_status, respectively, in the interests of clarity.
487 * The Windows MS Visual C++ 6.0 project files have been brought up to date.
488 The nmake build files were regenerated from these files with MSVC++ 5.0.
490 * A memory allocation bug on Windows that could cause at least executions of
491 `cvs status' to fail has been fixed (client fix).
493 * Resurrected files now get their modes and timestamps set correctly and a
494 longstanding bug involving resurrection of an uncommitted removal has been
497 * Some resurrection (cvs add) status messages have changed slightly.
499 * `cvs release' now works with Kerberos or GSSAPI encryption enabled (server
502 * File resurrection from a previously existing revision no longer just reports
503 that it works (server fix).
505 * Misc error & status message corrections.
507 * Diffing of locally added files against arbitrary revisions in an RCS archive
508 is now allowed when a file of the same name exists or used to exist on some
511 * Some user messages have been updated for consistency and spelling.
515 * The message source differentiation in the test suite between client and
516 server executables has been repaired.
518 Changes from 1.12.5 to 1.12.6:
519 ******************************
523 * CVSROOT/*info scripts may not work as expected with executables compiled
524 using VC++ under Windows since all quoting is currently done according to
525 Bourne Shell rules, which probably don't look like command.com rules.
526 Patches gratefully accepted.
528 * Imports will now always ignore directories and files named `CVS' to avoid
529 violating assumptions made by other parts of CVS.
531 * Directories specified to `checkout -d' are no longer required to exist. This
532 consolidates some behavior between `-d' options specified in the modules file
533 and `checkout -d' as well as removing some prior differences between local
534 and client/server mode operation.
536 * A problem with `cvs release' of subdirs that could corrupt CVS/Entries files
537 has been fixed (client/server).
539 * The CVS server's protocol check for unused data from the client is no longer
540 called automatically at program exit in order to avoid potential recursive
541 calls to error when the first close is due to memory allocation or similar
542 problems that cause calls to error() to fail. The check is still made when
543 the server program exits normally.
545 * The CVSROOT/*info files want a new command format and the old style strings
546 have been deprecated. Please see the manual for more information on the new
549 * The spec file has been updated to work with more recent versions of RPM.
551 * Some more GNULIB functions have been imported and/or updated for portability
554 * Several memory leaks have been plugged.
556 * A seg fault which always occurred after waiting on another process's lock
557 in order to establish a promotable lock is now avoided.
559 * An unlikely potential segfault when using the :fork: connection method has
562 * The CVS server has had the protocol check for unused data from the client
565 * A fix has been included that should avoid a very rare race condition that
566 could cause a CVS server to exit with a "broken pipe" message.
568 * Infinite alias loops in the modules file are now checked for and avoided.
570 * Clients on case insensitive systems now preserve the case of directories in
571 CVS/Entries, in addition to files, for use in communications with the CVS
574 * Misc status message fixes for consistency.
576 * Some previously untested behavior is now being tested.
578 * Server no longer claims to support the "Case" request.
580 * Case insensitive clients once again preserve the case of filenames in
581 CVS/Entries for communication with the server, as specified in the CVS
582 client/server protocol spec. Note that all CVS _servers_ still lack support
583 for case insensitive clients - servers are relying on the client to preserve
584 the case of checked out files.
586 * Thanks to Ville Skyttä the man page has a few less spelling errors and is
587 slightly more accurate.
589 * Thanks to Ville Skyttä some unused variables were removed from the log_accum
590 Perl script in contrib.
592 * Thanks to Alexey Mahotkin, a bug that prevented CVS from being compiled with
593 Kerberos 4 authentication enabled has been fixed.
595 * A minor bug that caused CVS to fail to report an inifinte alias loop in the
596 modules file when portions of the alias definition contained trailing slashes
599 * A bug in the gzip code that could cause heap corruption and segfaults in CVS
600 servers talking to clients less than 1.8 and some modern third-party CVS
601 clients has been fixed.
603 * mktemp.sh is now included with the source distribution so that the rcs2log
604 and cvsbug executables may be run on systems which do not contain an
605 implementation of mktemp.
607 * Misc documentation fixes.
611 * xmalloc, xstrdup, & some other memory allocating functions are now available
612 vi GNULIB versions imported into lib.
614 * The asnprintf() & vasnprintf() functions are now available due to a GNULIB
617 * Misc cosmetic, readability, and commenting fixes.
619 Changes between 1.12.4 and 1.12.5:
620 **********************************
622 SERVER SECURITY ISSUES
624 * pserver can no longer be configured to run as root via the
625 $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/passwd file, so if your passwd file is compromised, it no
626 longer leads directly to a root hack. Attempts to root will also be logged
631 * The Windows build files were updated to allow building of the current version
634 Changes between 1.12.3 and 1.12.4:
635 **********************************
639 * The CVS server no longer locks more than a directory at a time for write, so
640 large commits & tags should now have a much harder time blocking other
643 * Add support for large files. Use --disable-largefile to omit support
646 Changes between 1.12.2 and 1.12.3:
647 **********************************
649 SERVER SECURITY ISSUES
651 * Malformed module requests could cause the CVS server to attempt to create
652 directories and possibly files at the root of the filesystem holding the CVS
653 repository. Filesystem permissions usually prevent the creation of these
654 misplaced directories, but nevertheless, the CVS server now rejects the
659 * Support for case insensitive clients has been removed. This is not as
660 drastic as it sounds, as all of the current tests still pass without
661 modification when run from a case insensitive client to a case sensitive
662 server. In the end this should provide a major stability improvement.
664 * A minor problem that prevented the correct version of a system ZLIB from
665 being detected on some platforms has been fixed.
667 * Attempts to use the global `-l' option, removed from both client and server
668 as of version 1.12.1, will now elicit a warning rather than a fatal error
671 * The configure script now tests whether it is building CVS on a case
672 insensitive file system. If it is, CVS assumes that all file systems on this
673 platform will be case insensitive. This is useful for getting the case
674 insensitivity flag set correctly when compiling on Mac OS X and under Cygwin
675 on Windows. Autodetection can be overridden using the
676 --disable-case-sensitivity and --enable-case-sensitivity arguments to
681 * A new set of tests to test issues specific to case insensitive clients and
682 servers has also been added.
684 * Support has been added to the test suite to support testing over a :ext: link
685 to another machine, subject to some stringent requirements. This support can
686 be used, for instance, to test the operation of a case insensitive client
687 against a case sensitive server. Please see the comments in TEST and the
688 src/sanity.sh test script itself for more.
690 * We've standardized on Automake 1.7.9 to get a bug fix. See the note below
691 on the Autoconf upgrade for more details.
693 * We've standardized on Autoconf version 2.58 to avoid a bug and get at a few
694 new macros. Again, this should only really affect developers, though it is
695 possible that CVS will now compile on a few new platforms. Please see the
696 section of the INSTALL file about using the autotools if you are compiling
699 Changes between 1.12.1 and 1.12.2:
701 * Misc cleanup, reorganization, and other minor fixes.
703 * A behavior change in `cvs up -jrev1 -jrev2' for modified files with a base
704 revision of rev2 (ie, checked-out version matches rev2 and file has been
705 modified). The operation is no longer ignored and instead is passed to
706 diff3. This will potentially re-apply the diffs between the two revisions to
707 a modified local file. Status messages like from a standard merge have also
708 been added when the file would not or does not change due to this merge
709 request ("[file] already contains the changes between [revisions]...").
711 * A build problem that caused warnings and slower builds on systems without a
712 working getline() function (e.g. Mac OS X 10.1) has been fixed.
714 * A build problem that prevented the CVS executable from being built on systems
715 with the gettext library installed has been fixed.
717 * A bug which could stop `cvs admin -mTAG:message' from recursing has been
720 * Misc documentation cleanup and fixes.
722 * Some of the contrib scripts, some of the documentation, and sanity.sh were
723 modified to use and recommend more portable commands rather than using and
724 recommending commands which were not compatible with the POSIX 1003.1-2001
727 * CVS now knows how to report, as well as record, `P' record types.
729 * When running the `cvs history' command, clients will now send the
730 long-accepted `-e' option, for all records, rather than explicitly requesting
731 `P' record types, a request which servers prior to 1.11.7 will reject with a
734 * A problem with locating files requested by case insensitive clients which was
735 accidentally introduced in 1.11.6 as part of a fix for a data loss problem
736 involving `cvs add's from case insensitive clients has been fixed. The
737 relevant error message was `cvs [<command> aborted]: filE,v is ambiguous;
738 could mean FILE,v or file,v'.
740 * A problem in the CVS getpass library that could cause passwords to echo on
741 some systems has been fixed.
743 * A segfault that could occur in very rare cases where the stat of a file
744 failed during a diff has been fixed.
746 * Any user with write privleges to the CVSROOT/checkoutlist file could pass
747 arbitrary format strings directly through to a printf function. This was
748 probably bad and has been fixed. White space at the beginning of error strings
749 in checkoutlist is now ignored properly.
751 * A chmod 0600 that CVS performed on temp files it created designed to work
752 around a bug in versions of GLIBC eariler than 2.0.7 has been removed since it
753 still left a race condition open to exploitation and provided a false sense of
754 security. If you are linking CVS against a version of GLIBC prior to 2.0.7,
755 you should consider upgrading GLIBC.
757 * The CVSROOT/editinfo file is no longer referenced by CVS. This funcitonality
758 has been deprecated for over six years and removing it will presumably not
759 cause anyone any problems.
761 * In client/server mode, most messages from CVS now contain the actual
762 command name rather than the generic "server".
764 * A long-standing bug that prevented most client/server updates from being
765 logged in the history file has been fixed.
767 * Updates done via a patch ("P" status) are now logged in the history file
768 by default and the corresponding "P" history record type is now documented.
769 If you're setting the LogHistory option in your CVSROOT/config file, you may
770 want to add "P" to the list of record types.
772 * CVS now will always compile its own getpass() function (originally from
773 GNULIB) in favor of any system one that may exist. This avoids some problems
774 with long passwords on some systems and updates us to POSIX.2 compliance, since
775 getpass() was removed from the POSIX.2 specification.
777 * Support for pre-ANSI compilers has been removed. Our minimum support level
778 now assumes at least a freestanding C89 compilers. See the HACKING file for
779 more information. If you *really* need K&R support, our Makefile.am files
780 should only need minor tweaking to get them to run the ansi2knr script from the
781 Automake project. If you get this working, please send a patch to
784 * Experimental support for Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) has been
785 added, though it is not compiled by default. If you like this feature (or
786 don't), please send us feedback. See the Cederqvist, `./configure --help',
787 and the INSTALL file for more.
789 * Command line keyword expansion modes no longer override binary keyword
792 * New LocalKeyword and KeywordExpand options to CVSROOT/config which
793 FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD users may find familiar as the "tag" and
794 "tagexpand" options used for many years. The CVSHeader keyword has
795 also been added to the mixture.
797 * A bug that allowed a write lock to be created in a directory despite
798 there being existing read locks when using LockDir in CVSROOT/config has
801 * A bug with short patches (`rdiff -s') which caused rdiff to sometimes report
802 differences that did not exist has been fixed.
804 * Some minor corrections were made to the diff code to keep diff & rdiff from
805 printing diff headers with empty change texts when two files have different
806 revision numbers but the same content.
808 * The global '-l' option, which suppressed history logging, has been removed
809 from both client and server.
811 Changes from 1.11.5 to 1.12.1:
813 * The new --with-external-zlib option can be passed to configure to compile
814 CVS against an external installed zlib.
816 * A warning message is now issued if an administrative file contains
817 more than one DEFAULT entry.
819 * An error running a verifymsg script (such as referencing an unset user
820 variable or the script not existing) now causes the verification to
823 * Errors in administrative files commands (like unset user variables)
824 are no longer reported unless the command is actually executed.
826 * When a file is initially checked out, its last access time is now set
827 to the current time rather than being set to the time the file was last
828 checked in like the modification time is.
830 * The Checkin.prog and Update.prog functionality has been removed. This
831 fuctionality previously allowed executables to be specified in the modules file
832 to be run at update and checkin time, but users could edit these files on a per
833 workspace basis, creating a security hole.
835 * CVSROOTs which contain a symlink to a real repository should work.
837 * contrib/rcs2log and src/cvsbug now use the BSD mktemp program to create
838 their temp files and directories on systems which provide it.
840 * Added a UserAdminOptions configuration option to CVSROOT/config to
841 control which `cvs admin' commands are not restricted to the `cvsadmin'
844 * If the rcsinfo specified template changes after a user has checked
845 out a tree, the template in the users' tree will be updated rather
846 than remaining static from the time of the original checkout.
848 * Added a CVSREADONLYFS environment variable and `-R' cvs global
849 option to turn on read-only repository mode for local repositories.
850 This allows users to checkout from a CDROM repository or other
851 read-only filesystem.
853 * There is a new CVS_LOCAL_BRANCH_NUM environment variable, which
854 may be used to give control over the branch number to be used next.
855 Useful for having local changes in a CVSup mirrored repository.
857 * Miscellaneous documentation corrections.
859 * Corrected the path in a failed write error message.
861 * Autoconf and Automake are no longer run automatically unless you run
862 configure with --enable-maintainer-mode. Accordingly, noautomake.sh is
863 no longer needed and has been removed.
865 * We've standardized on Automake version 1.7.5 and Autoconf version 2.57 to get
866 at a few new macros. Again, this should only really affect developers. See
867 the section of the INSTALL file about using the autotools if you are compiling
870 Changes from 1.11.4 to 1.11.5:
872 * Fixed a security hole in the CVS server by which users with read only access
873 could gain write access. This issue does not affect client builds. The
874 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the
875 name CAN-2003-0015 to this issue. See
876 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2003-0015> for more
879 * Fixed some bugs where revision numbers starting with 0 (like 0.3)
880 weren't correctly handled. (CVS doesn't normally use such revision
881 numbers, but users may be able to force it to do so and old RCS files
884 Changes from 1.11.3 to 1.11.4:
886 * Some minor changes to allow the code to compile on Windows platforms.
888 Changes from 1.11.2 to 1.11.3:
890 * The tag/rtag code has been fixed to once again lock just a single
893 * There was a bug where certain error conditions could cause the server
894 to go into an infinite loop. There was also a bug that caused a
895 compressed connection from an older client to hang on shutdown. These
896 bugs have been fixed.
898 * Fixed a bug that caused the server to reject most watch commands.
900 * When waiting for another user's lock, the message timestamps are now
901 in UTC rather than the server's local time.
903 * The options.h file is no longer used. This fixes a bug that occurred when
904 1.11.2 was compiled on Windows platforms.
906 * We've standardized on Automake version 1.6.3 and Autoconf version 2.53.
907 They are cleaner, less bug prone, and will hopfully allow me to start updating
908 sanity.sh to use Autotest and Autoshell. Again, this should only really affect
909 developers. See the section of the INSTALL file about using the autotools if
910 you are compiling CVS yourself.
912 * Fixed a bug in the log/rlog code when a revision range crosses a
915 * Fixed a bug where filenames starting with - would be misinterpreted as
916 options when using client/server mode.
918 Changes from 1.11.1p1 to 1.11.2:
920 * There is a new feature, enabled by RereadLogAfterVerify in CVSROOT/config,
921 which tells CVS to reread the log message after running the verifymsg
922 script. This allows the verifymsg script to reformat or otherwise
923 modify the log message.
925 * The interpretation of revision ranges using :: in "log" and "rlog"
926 has changed: a::b now excludes the log message from revision a but
927 includes the log message from revision b. Also, revision ranges that
928 cross branch points should now work.
930 * zlib has been updated to version 1.4. There is a security advisory
931 out in regards to 1.3. This should fix that problem.
933 * The "log" and "rlog" commands now have a -S option to suppress the
934 header information when no revisions are selected.
936 * A serious error that allowed read-only users to tag files has been
939 * The "annotate" command will no longer annotate binary files unless
940 you specify the new -F option.
942 * The "tag" and "rtag" commands will no longer move or delete branch
943 tags unless you use the new -B option. (This prevents accidental
944 changes to branch tags that are hard to undo.)
946 * We've standardized on the 1.5 Automake release for the moment. Again, this
947 should only really affect developers. See the section of the INSTALL file
948 about using the autotools if you are compiling CVS yourself.
950 Changes from 1.11.1 to 1.11.1p1:
952 * Read only access was broken - now fixed.
954 Changes from 1.11 to 1.11.1:
956 * There was a locking bug in the tag/rtag code that could lose changes
957 made to a file while the tag operation was in progress. This has been
958 fixed, but all of the directories being tagged are now locked for the
959 entire duration of the tag operation rather than only one directory at a
962 * The "cvs diff" command now accepts the -y/--side=by-side and -T/
963 --initial-tab options. (To use these options with a remote repository,
964 both the client and the server must support them.)
966 * The expansion of the loginfo format string has changed slightly.
967 Previously, the expansion was surrounded by single quotes ('); if a file
968 name contained a single quote character, the string would not be parsed
969 as a single entity by the Unix shell (and it would not be possible to
970 parse it unambiguously). Now the expansion is surrounded by double
971 quotes (") and any embedded dollar signs ($), backticks (`), backslashes
972 (\), and double quotes are preceded by a backslash. This is parsed as a
973 single entity by the shell reguardless of content. This change should
974 not be noticable unless you're not using a Unix shell or you have
975 embedded the format string inside a double quoted string.
977 * There was a bug in the diff code which sometimes caused conflicts to
978 be flagged which shouldn't have been. This has been fixed.
980 * New "cvs rlog" and "cvs rannotate" commands have been added to get log
981 messages and annotations without having to have a checked-out copy.
983 * Exclusive revision ranges have been added to "cvs log" using ::
984 (similar to "cvs admin -o").
986 * The VMS client now accepts wildcards if you're running VMS 7.x.
988 * ZLIB has been updated to version 1.1.3, the most current version. This
989 includes mostly some optimizations and minor bug fixes.
991 * The ~/.cvspass file has a slightly modified format. CVSROOTs are now
992 stored in a new canonical form - hostnames are now case insensitive and
993 port numbers are always stored in the new format. Until a new login for
994 a particular CVSROOT is performed with the new version of CVS, new and
995 old versions of CVS should interoperate invisibly. After that point, an
996 extra login using the old version of CVS may be necessary to continue to
997 allow the new and old versions of CVS to interoperate using the same
998 ~/.cvspass file and CVSROOT. The exception to this rule occurs when the
999 CVSROOTs used with the different versions use case insensitively
1000 different hostnames, for example, "empress", and "empress.2-wit.com".
1002 * A password and a port number may now be specified in CVSROOT for
1003 pserver connections. The new format is:
1005 :pserver:[[user][:password]@]host[:[port]]/path
1007 Note that passwords specified in a checkout command will be saved in the
1008 clear in the CVS/Root file in each created directory, so this is not
1009 recommended, except perhaps when accessing anonymous repositories or the
1012 * The distribution has been converted to use Automake. This shouldn't
1013 affect most users except to ease some portability concerns, but if you
1014 are building from the repository and encounter problems with the
1015 makefiles, you might try running ./noautomake.sh after a fresh update
1018 Changes from 1.10 to 1.11:
1020 * The "cvs update" command has a new -C option to get clean copies from
1021 the repository, abandoning any local changes.
1023 * The new "cvs version" command gives a short version message. If
1024 the repository is remote, both the client and server versions are
1027 * "cvs admin -t" now works correctly in client/server mode.
1029 * The "cvs history" command output format has changed -- the date
1030 now includes the year and is given is ISO 8601 format (yyyy-mm-dd).
1031 Also, the new LogHistory option in CVSROOT/config can be used to
1032 control what information gets recorded in the log file and code has
1033 been added to record file removals.
1035 * The buggy PreservePermissions code has been disabled.
1037 * Anonymous read-only access can now be done without requiring a
1038 password. On the server side, simply give that user (presumably
1039 `anonymous') an empty password in the CVSROOT/passwd file, and then
1040 any received password will authenticate successfully.
1042 * There is a new access method :fork: which is similar to :local:
1043 except that it is implemented via the CVS remote protocol, and thus
1044 has a somewhat different set of quirks and bugs.
1046 * The -d command line option no longer updates the CVS/Root file. For
1047 one thing, the CVS 1.9/1.10 behavior never had updated CVS/Root in
1048 subdirectories, and for another, it didn't seem that popular in
1049 general. So this change restores the CVS 1.8 behavior (which is also
1050 the CVS 1.9/1.10 behavior if the environment variable
1051 CVS_IGNORE_REMOTE_ROOT is set; with this change,
1052 CVS_IGNORE_REMOTE_ROOT no longer has any effect).
1054 * It is now possible for a single CVS command to recurse into several
1055 CVS roots. This includes roots which are located on several servers,
1056 or which are both remote and local. CVS will make connections to as
1057 many servers as necessary.
1059 * It is now possible to put the CVS lock files in a directory
1060 set by the new LockDir option in CVSROOT/config. The default
1061 continues to be to put the lock files in the repository itself.
1063 Changes from 1.9 to 1.10:
1065 * A bug was discovered in the -t/-f wrapper support that can cause
1066 serious data loss. Because of this (and also the fact that it doesn't
1067 work at all in client/server mode), the -t/-f wrapper code has been
1068 disabled until it can be fixed.
1070 * There is a new feature, enabled by TopLevelAdmin in CVSROOT/config,
1071 which tells CVS to modify the behavior of the "checkout" command. The
1072 command now creates a CVS directory at the top level of the new
1073 working directory, in addition to CVS directories created within
1074 checked-out directories. See the Cederqvist for details.
1076 * There is an optional set of features, enabled by PreservePermissions
1077 in CVSROOT/config, which allow CVS to store unix-specific file
1078 information such as permissions, file ownership, and links. See the
1079 Cederqvist for details.
1081 * One can now authenticate and encrypt using the GSSAPI network
1082 security interface. For details see the Cederqvist's description of
1083 specifying :gserver: in CVSROOT, and the -a global option.
1085 * All access to RCS files is now implemented internally rather than by
1086 calling RCS programs. The main user-visible consequence of this is
1087 that there is no need to worry about making sure that CVS finds the
1088 correct version of RCS. The -b global option and the RCSBIN setting
1089 in CVSROOT/config are still accepted but don't do anything. The
1090 $RCSBIN internal variable in administrative files is no longer
1093 * There is a new syntax, "cvs admin -orev1::rev2", which collapses the
1094 revisions between rev1 and rev2 without deleting rev1 or rev2
1097 * There is a new administrative file CVSROOT/config which allows one
1098 to specify miscellaneous aspects of CVS configuration. Currently
1101 - SystemAuth, allows you to prevent pserver from checking for system
1102 usernames/passwords.
1104 For more information see the "config" section of cvs.texinfo.
1106 * When setting up the pserver server, one now must specify the
1107 allowable CVSROOT directories in inetd.conf. See the Password
1108 authentication server section of cvs.texinfo for details. Note that
1109 this implies that everyone who is running a pserver server must edit
1110 inetd.conf when upgrading their CVS.
1112 * The client no longer needs an external patch program (assuming both
1113 the client and the server have been updated to the new version).
1115 * "cvs admin [options]" will now recurse. In previous versions of
1116 CVS, it was an error and one needed to specify "cvs admin [options] ."
1117 to recurse. This change brings admin in line with the other CVS
1120 * New "logout" command to remove the password for a remote cvs
1121 repository from the cvspass file.
1123 * Read-only repository access is implemented for the
1124 password-authenticated server (other access methods are just governed
1125 by Unix file permissions, since they require login access to the
1126 repository machine anyway). See the "Repository" section of
1127 cvs.texinfo for details, including a discussion of security issues.
1128 Note that the requirement that read-only users be able to create locks
1129 and write the history file still applies.
1131 * There is a new administrative file verifymsg which is like editinfo
1132 but merely validates the message, rather than also getting it from the
1133 user. It therefore works with client/server CVS or if one uses the -m
1134 or -F options to commit. See the verifymsg section of cvs.texinfo for
1137 * The %s format formerly accepted in loginfo has been extended to
1138 formats such as %{sVv}, so that loginfo scripts have access to the
1139 version numbers being changed. See the Loginfo section of cvs.texinfo
1142 * The postscript documentation (doc/cvs.ps) shipped with CVS is now
1143 formatted for US letter size instead of A4. This is not because we
1144 consider this size "better" than A4, but because we believe that the
1145 US letter version will print better on A4 paper than the other way
1148 * The "cvs export" command is now logged in the history file and there
1149 is a "cvs history -x E" command to select history file entries
1152 * CVS no longer uses the CVS_PASSWORD environment variable. Storing
1153 passwords in cleartext in an environment variable is a security risk,
1154 especially since (on BSD variants) any user on the system can display
1155 any process's environment using 'ps'. Users should use the 'cvs
1156 login' command instead.
1159 Changes from 1.8 to 1.9:
1161 * Windows NT client should now work on Windows 95 as well.
1163 * New option "--help-synonyms" prints a list of all recognized command
1166 * The "log" command is now implemented internally rather than via the
1167 RCS "rlog" program. The main user-visible consequence is that
1168 symbolic branch names now work (for example "cvs log -rbranch1").
1169 Also, the date formats accepted by -d have changed. They previously
1170 had been a bewildering variety of poorly-documented date formats. Now
1171 they are the same as the date formats accepted by the -D options to
1172 the other CVS commands, which is also a (different) bewildering
1173 variety of poorly-documented date formats, but at least we are
1174 consistently bewildering :-).
1176 * Encryption is now supported over a Kerberos client/server
1177 connection. The new "-x" global option requests it. You must
1178 configure with the --enable-encryption option in order to enable
1181 * The format of the CVS commit message has changed slightly when
1182 committing changes on a branch. The tag on which the commit is
1183 ocurring is now reported correctly in all cases.
1185 * New flag -k in wrappers allows you to specify the keyword expansion
1186 mode for added files based on their name. For example, you can
1187 specify that files whose name matches *.exe are binary by default.
1188 See the Wrappers section of cvs.texinfo for more details.
1190 * Remote CVS with the "-z" option now uses the zlib library (included
1191 with CVS) to compress all communication between the client and the
1192 server, rather than invoking gzip on each file separately. This means
1193 that compression is better and there is no need for an external gzip
1194 program (except to interoperate with older version of CVS).
1196 * The "cvs rlog" command is deprecated and running it will print a
1197 warning; use the synonymous "cvs log" command instead. It is
1198 confusing for rlog to mean the same as log because some other CVS
1199 commands are in pairs consisting of a plain command which operates on
1200 a working directory and an "r" command which does not (diff/rdiff;
1203 * "cvs diff" has a bunch of new options, mostly long options. Most of
1204 these work only if rcsdiff and diff support them, and are named the
1205 same as the corresponding options to diff.
1207 * The -q and -Q command options to "cvs diff" were removed (use the
1208 global options instead). This brings "cvs diff" into line with the
1209 rest of the CVS commands.
1211 * The "annotate" command can now be used to annotate a revision other
1212 than the head revision on the trunk (see the -r, -D, and -f options in
1213 the annotate node of cvs.texinfo for details).
1215 * The "tag" command has a new option "-c" which checks that all files
1216 are not locally modified before tagging.
1218 * The -d command line option now overrides the cvsroot setting stored
1219 in the CVS/Root file in each working directory, and specifying -d will
1220 cause CVS/Root to be updated.
1222 * Local (non-client/server) CVS now runs on Windows NT. See
1223 windows-NT/README for details.
1225 * The CVSROOT variable specification has changed to support more
1226 access methods. In addition to "pserver," "server" (internal rsh
1227 client), "ext" (external rsh client), "kserver" (kerberos), and
1228 "local" (local filesystem access) can now be specified. For more
1229 details on each method, see cvs.texinfo (there is an index entry for
1230 :local: and each of the other access methods).
1232 * The "login" command no longer prompts the user for username and
1233 hostname, since one will have to provide that information via the `-d'
1234 flag or by setting CVSROOT.
1236 Changes from 1.7 to 1.8:
1238 * New "cvs annotate" command to display the last modification for each
1239 line of a file, with the revision number, user checking in the
1240 modification, and date of the modification. For more information see
1241 the `annotate' node in cvs.texinfo.
1243 * The cvsinit shell script has been replaced by a cvs init command.
1244 The cvs init command creates some example administrative files which
1245 are similar to the files found in the examples directory (and copied
1246 by cvsinit) in previous releases.
1248 * Added the patterns *.olb *.exe _$* *$ to default ignore list.
1250 * There is now a $USER internal variable for *info files.
1252 * There is no longer a separate `mkmodules' program; the functionality
1253 is now built into `cvs'. If upgrading an old repository, it is OK to
1254 leave in the lines in the modules file which run mkmodules (the
1255 mkmodules actions will get done twice, but that is harmless); you will
1256 probably want to remove them once you are no longer using the old CVS.
1258 * One can now specify user variables in *info files via the
1259 ${=varname} syntax; there is a -s global option to set them. See the
1260 Variables node in cvs.texinfo for details.
1262 Changes from 1.6 to 1.7:
1264 * The default ignore list has changed slightly: *.obj has been added
1265 and CVS* has been changed to CVS CVS.adm.
1267 * CVS now supports password authentication when accessing remote
1268 repositories; this is useful for sites that can't use rsh (because of
1269 a firewall, for example), and also don't have kerberos. See node
1270 "Password authenticated" (in "Remote repositories", in
1271 doc/cvs.texinfo) for more details. Note: This feature requires both
1272 the client and server to be upgraded.
1274 * Using the -kb option to specify binary files now works--most cases
1275 did not work before. See the "Binary files" section of
1276 doc/cvs.texinfo for details.
1278 * New developer communication features. See the "Watches" section of
1279 doc/cvs.texinfo for details.
1281 * RCS keyword "Name" supported for "cvs update -r <tag>" and "cvs
1284 * If there is a group whose name matches a compiled in value which
1285 defaults to "cvsadmin", only members of that group can use "cvs
1286 admin". This replaces the CVS_NOADMIN option.
1288 * CVS now sets the modes of files in the repository based on the
1289 CVSUMASK environment variable or a compiled in value defaulting to
1290 002. This way other developers will be able to access the files in
1291 the repository regardless of the umask of the developer creating them.
1293 * The command names in .cvsrc now match the official name of the
1294 command, not the one (possibly an alias) by which it was invoked. If
1295 you had previously relied on "cvs di" and "cvs diff" using different
1296 options, instead use a shell function or alias (for example "alias
1297 cvsdi='cvs diff -u'"). You also can specify global CVS options (like
1298 "-z") using the command name "cvs".
1300 Changes from 1.5 to 1.6:
1302 * Del updated the man page to include all of the new features
1305 * "cvs tag" now supports a "-r | -D" option for tagging an already
1306 tagged revision / specific revision of a file.
1308 * There is a "taginfo" file in CVSROOT that supports filtering and
1309 recording of tag operations.
1311 * Long options support added, including --help and --version options.
1313 * "cvs release" no longer cares whether or not the directory being
1314 released has an entry in the `modules' file.
1316 * The modules file now takes a -e option which is used instead of -o
1317 for "cvs export". If your modules file has a -o option which you want
1318 to be used for "cvs export", change it to specify -e as well as -o.
1320 * "cvs export" now takes a -k option to set RCS keyword expansion.
1321 This way you can export binary files. If you want the old behavior,
1322 you need to specify -kv.
1324 * "cvs update", "cvs rdiff", "cvs checkout", "cvs import", "cvs
1325 release", "cvs rtag", and "cvs tag" used to take -q and -Q options
1326 after the command name (e.g. "cvs update -q"). This was confusing
1327 because other commands, such as "cvs ci", did not. So the options
1328 after the command name have been removed and you must now specify, for
1329 example, "cvs -q update", which has been supported since CVS 1.3.
1331 * New "wrappers" feature. This allows you to set a hook which
1332 transforms files on their way in and out of cvs (apparently on the
1333 NeXT there is some particular usefulness in tarring things up in the
1334 repository). It also allows you to declare files as merge-by-copy
1335 which means that instead of trying to merge the file, CVS will merely
1336 copy the new version. There is a CVSROOT/cvswrappers file and an
1337 optionsl ~/.cvswrappers file to support this feature.
1339 * You can set CVSROOT to user@host:dir, not just host:dir, if your
1340 username on the server host is different than on the client host.
1342 * VISUAL is accepted as well as EDITOR.
1344 * $CVSROOT is expanded in *info files.
1346 Changes from 1.4A2 to 1.5:
1348 * Remote implementation. This is very helpful when collaborating on a
1349 project with someone across a wide-area network. This release can
1350 also be used locally, like other CVS versions, if you have no need for
1353 Here are some of the features of the remote implementation:
1354 - It uses reliable transport protocols (TCP/IP) for remote repository
1355 access, not NFS. NFS is unusable over long distances (and sometimes
1356 over short distances)
1357 - It transfers only those files that have changed in the repository or
1358 the working directory. To save transmission time, it will transfer
1359 patches when appropriate, and can compress data for transmission.
1360 - The server never holds CVS locks while waiting for a reply from the client;
1361 this makes the system robust when used over flaky networks.
1363 The remote features are documented in doc/cvsclient.texi in the CVS
1364 distribution, but the main doc file, cvs.texinfo, has not yet been
1365 updated to include the remote features.
1367 * Death support. See src/README-rm-add for more information on this.
1369 * Many speedups, especially from jtc@cygnus.com.
1371 * CVS 1.2 compatibility code has been removed as a speedup. If you
1372 have working directories checked out by CVS 1.2, CVS 1.3 or 1.4A2 will
1373 try to convert them, but CVS 1.5 and later will not (if the working
1374 directory is up to date and contains no extraneous files, you can just
1375 remove it, and then check out a new working directory). Likewise if
1376 your repository contains a CVSROOT.adm directory instead of a CVSROOT
1377 directory, you need to rename it.
1379 Fri Oct 21 20:58:54 1994 Brian Berliner <berliner@sun.com>
1381 * Changes between CVS 1.3 and CVS 1.4 Alpha-2
1383 * A new program, "cvsbug", is provided to let you send bug reports
1384 directly to the CVS maintainers. Please use it instead of sending
1385 mail to the info-cvs mailing list. If your build fails, you may
1386 have to invoke "cvsbug" directly from the "src" directory as
1389 * A new User's Guide and Tutorial, written by Per Cederqvist
1390 <ceder@signum.se> of Signum Support. See the "doc" directory. A
1391 PostScript version is included as "doc/cvs.ps".
1393 * The Frequesntly Asked Questions file, FAQ, has been added to the
1394 release. Unfortunately, its contents are likely out-of-date.
1396 * The "cvsinit" shell script is now installed in the $prefix/bin
1397 directory like the other programs. You can now create new
1398 CVS repositories with great ease.
1400 * Index: lines are now printed on output from 'diff' and 'rdiff',
1401 in order to facilitate application of patches to multiple subdirs.
1403 * Support for a ~/.cvsrc file, which allows you to specify options
1404 that are always supposed to be given to a specific command. This
1405 feature shows the non-orthogonality of the option set, since while
1406 there may be an option to turn something on, the option to turn
1407 that same thing off may not exist.
1409 * You can now list subdirectories that you wish to ignore in a
1410 modules listing, such as:
1412 gcc -a gnu/gcc, !gnu/gcc/testsuites
1414 which will check out everything underneath gnu/gcc, except
1415 everything underneath gnu/gcc/testsuites.
1417 * It is now much harder to accidentally overwrite an existing tag
1418 name, since attempting to move a tag name will result in a error,
1419 unless the -F (force) flag is given to the tag subcommands.
1421 * Better error checking on matching of the repository used to
1422 check code out from against the repository the current cvs
1423 commnands would use. (Thanks to Mark Baushke <mdb@cisco.com>)
1425 * Better support for sites with multiple CVSROOT repositories has
1426 been contributed. The file "CVS/Root" in your working directory
1427 is created to hold the full path to the CVS repository and a
1428 simple check is made against your current CVSROOT setting.
1430 * You can now specify an RCS keyword substitution value when you
1431 import files into the repository.
1433 * Uses a much newer version of Autoconf, and conforms to the GNU
1434 coding standards much more closely. No, it still doesn't have
1437 * Code cleanup. Many passes through gcc -Wall helped to identify
1438 a number of questionable constructs. Most arbitrary length limits
1441 * Profiling to determine bottlenecks helped to identify the best
1442 places to spend time speeding up the code, which was then done. A
1443 number of performance enhancements in filename matching have sped
1446 * Many more contributions have been added to the "contrib"
1447 directory. See the README file in that directory for more
1450 * "cvs commit" will try harder to not change the file's
1451 modification time after the commit. If the file does not change
1452 as a result of the commit operation, CVS will preserve the
1453 original modification time, thus speeding up future make-type
1456 * "cvs commit" now includes any removed files in the (optional)
1457 pre-commit checking program that may be invoked. Previously, only
1458 added and modified files were included.
1460 * It is now possible to commit a file directly onto the trunk at a
1461 specific revision level by doing "cvs commit -r3.0 file.c", where
1462 "3.0" specifies the revision you wish to create. The file must be
1463 up-to-date with the current head of the trunk for this to succeed.
1465 * "cvs commit" will now function with a pre-commit program that
1466 has arguments specified in the "commitinfo" file.
1468 * The "mkmodules" program will now look within the
1469 $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/checkoutlist" file for any additional files that
1470 should be automatically checked out within CVSROOT; mkmodules also
1471 tries harder to preserve any execute bits the files may have
1474 * "cvs diff" is much more accurate about its exit status now. It
1475 now returns the maximum exit status of any invoked diff.
1477 * The "-I !" option is now supported for the import and update
1478 commands correctly. It will properly clear the ignore list now.
1480 * Some problems with "cvs import" handling of .cvsignore have been
1481 fixed; as well, some rampant recursion problems with import have
1484 * "cvs rdiff" (aka "cvs patch") now tries to set the modify time
1485 of any temporary files it uses to match those specified for the
1486 particular revision. This allows a more accurate patch image to
1489 * "cvs status" has improved revision descriptions. "Working
1490 revision" is used for the revision of the working file that you
1491 edit directly; "Repository revision" is the revision of the file
1492 with the $CVSROOT source repository. Also, the output is clearer
1493 with regard to sticky and branch revisions.
1495 * CVS no longer dumps core when given a mixture of directories and
1496 files in sub-directories (as in "cvs ci file1 dir1/file2").
1497 Instead, arguments are now clumped into their respective directory
1498 and operated on in chunks, together.
1500 * If the CVSEDITOR environment variable is set, that editor is
1501 used for log messages instead of the EDITOR environment variable.
1502 This makes it easy to substitute intelligent programs to make more
1503 elaborate log messages. Contributed by Mark D Baushke
1506 * Command argument changes:
1507 cvs: The "-f" option has been added to ignore
1509 commit: Renamed the "-f logfile" option to the
1510 "-F logfile" option. Added the "-f"
1511 option to force a commit of the specified
1512 files (this disables recursion).
1513 history: Added "-t timezone" option to force any
1514 date-specific output into the specified
1516 import: Added "-d" option to use the file's
1517 modification time as the time of the
1518 import. Added "-k sub" option to set the
1519 default RCS keyword substitution mode for
1520 newly-created files.
1521 remove: Added "-f" option to force the file's
1522 automatic removal if it still exists in
1523 the working directory (use with caution).
1524 rtag: Added "-F" option to move the tag if it
1525 already exists -- new default is to NOT
1526 move tags automatically.
1527 tag: Added "-F" option to move the tag if it
1528 already exists -- new default is to NOT
1529 move tags automatically.
1531 Tue Apr 7 15:55:25 1992 Brian Berliner (berliner at sun.com)
1533 * Changes between CVS 1.3 Beta-3 and official CVS 1.3!
1535 * A new shell script is provided, "./cvsinit", which can be run at
1536 install time to help setup your $CVSROOT area. This can greatly
1537 ease your entry into CVS usage.
1539 * The INSTALL file has been updated to include the machines on
1540 which CVS has compiled successfully. I think CVS 1.3 is finally
1541 portable. Thanks to all the Beta testers!
1543 * Support for the "editinfo" file was contributed. This file
1544 (located in $CVSROOT/CVSROOT) can be used to specify a special
1545 "editor" to run on a per-directory basis within the repository,
1546 instead of the usual user's editor. As such, it can verify that
1547 the log message entered by the user is of the appropriate form
1548 (contains a bugid and test validation, for example).
1550 * The manual pages cvs(1) and cvs(5) have been updated.
1552 * The "mkmodules" command now informs you when your modules file
1553 has duplicate entries.
1555 * The "add" command now preserves any per-directory sticky tag when
1556 you add a new directory to your checked-out sources.
1558 * The "admin" command is now a fully recursive interface to the
1559 "rcs" program which operates on your checked-out sources. It no
1560 longer requires you to specify the full path to the RCS file.
1562 * The per-file sticky tags can now be effectively removed with
1563 "cvs update -A file", even if you had checked out the whole
1564 directory with a per-directory sticky tag. This allows a great
1565 deal of flexibility in managing the revisions that your checked-out
1566 sources are based upon (both per-directory and per-file sticky
1569 * The "cvs -n commit" command now works, to show which files are
1570 out-of-date and will cause the real commit to fail, or which files
1571 will fail any pre-commit checks. Also, the "cvs -n import ..."
1572 command will now show you what it would've done without actually
1575 * Doing "cvs commit modules" to checkin the modules file will no
1576 properly run the "mkmodules" program (assuming you have setup your
1577 $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/modules file to do so).
1579 * The -t option in the modules file (which specifies a program to
1580 run when you do a "cvs rtag" operation on a module) now gets the
1581 symbolic tag as the second argument when invoked.
1583 * When the source repository is locked by another user, that user's
1584 login name will be displayed as the holder of the lock.
1586 * Doing "cvs checkout module/file.c" now works even if
1587 module/file.c is in the Attic (has been removed from main-line
1590 * Doing "cvs commit */Makefile" now works as one would expect.
1591 Rather than trying to commit everything recursively, it will now
1592 commit just the files specified.
1594 * The "cvs remove" command is now fully recursive. To schedule a
1595 file for removal, all you have to do is "rm file" and "cvs rm".
1596 With no arguments, "cvs rm" will schedule all files that have been
1597 physically removed for removal from the source repository at the
1600 * The "cvs tag" command now prints "T file" for each file that was
1601 tagged by this invocation and "D file" for each file that had the
1602 tag removed (as with "cvs tag -d").
1604 * The -a option has been added to "cvs rtag" to force it to clean
1605 up any old, matching tags for files that have been removed (in the
1606 Attic) that may not have been touched by this tag operation. This
1607 can help keep a consistent view with your tag, even if you re-use
1610 Sat Feb 29 16:02:05 1992 Brian Berliner (berliner at sun.com)
1612 * Changes between CVS 1.3 Beta-2 and CVS 1.3 Beta-3
1614 * Many portability fixes, thanks to all the Beta testers! With any
1615 luck, this Beta release will compile correctly on most anything.
1616 Hey, what are we without our dreams.
1618 * CVS finally has support for doing isolated development on a
1619 branch off the current (or previous!) revisions. This is also
1620 extremely nice for generating patches for previously released
1621 software while development is progressing on the next release.
1622 Here's an example of creating a branch to fix a patch with the 2.0
1623 version of the "foo" module, even though we are already well into
1624 the 3.0 release. Do:
1626 % cvs rtag -b -rFOO_2_0 FOO_2_0_Patch foo
1627 % cvs checkout -rFOO_2_0_Patch foo
1632 A physical branch will be created in the RCS file only when you
1633 actually commit the change. As such, forking development at some
1634 random point in time is extremely light-weight -- requiring just a
1635 symbolic tag in each file until a commit is done. To fork
1636 development at the currently checked out sources, do:
1638 % cvs tag -b Personal_Hack
1639 % cvs update -rPersonal_Hack
1643 Now, if you decide you want the changes made in the Personal_Hack
1644 branch to be merged in with other changes made in the main-line
1645 development, you could do:
1647 % cvs commit # to make Personal_Hack complete
1648 % cvs update -A # to update sources to main-line
1649 % cvs update -jPersonal_Hack # to merge Personal_Hack
1651 to update your checked-out sources, or:
1653 % cvs checkout -jPersonal_Hack module
1655 to checkout a fresh copy.
1657 To support this notion of forked development, CVS reserves
1658 all even-numbered branches for its own use. In addition, CVS
1659 reserves the ".0" and ".1" branches. So, if you intend to do your
1660 own branches by hand with RCS, you should use odd-numbered branches
1661 starting with ".3", as in "1.1.3", "1.1.5", 1.2.9", ....
1663 * The "cvs commit" command now supports a fully functional -r
1664 option, allowing you to commit your changes to a specific numeric
1665 revision or symbolic tag with full consistency checks. Numeric
1666 tags are useful for bringing your sources all up to some revision
1671 For symbolic tags, you can only commit to a tag that references a
1672 branch in the RCS file. One created by "cvs rtag -b" or from
1673 "cvs tag -b" is appropriate (see below).
1675 * Roland Pesch <pesch@cygnus.com> and K. Richard Pixley
1676 <rich@cygnus.com> were kind enough to contribute two new manual
1677 pages for CVS: cvs(1) and cvs(5). Most of the new CVS 1.3 features
1678 are now documented, with the exception of the new branch support
1679 added to commit/rtag/tag/checkout/update.
1681 * The -j options of checkout/update have been added. The "cvs join"
1682 command has been removed.
1684 With one -j option, CVS will merge the changes made between the
1685 resulting revision and the revision that it is based on (e.g., if
1686 the tag refers to a branch, CVS will merge all changes made in
1687 that branch into your working file).
1689 With two -j options, CVS will merge in the changes between the two
1690 respective revisions. This can be used to "remove" a certain delta
1691 from your working file. E.g., If the file foo.c is based on
1692 revision 1.6 and I want to remove the changes made between 1.3 and
1695 % cvs update -j1.5 -j1.3 foo.c # note the order...
1697 In addition, each -j option can contain on optional date
1698 specification which, when used with branches, can limit the chosen
1699 revision to one within a specific date. An optional date is
1700 specified by adding a colon (:) to the tag, as in:
1702 -jSymbolic_Tag:Date_Specifier
1704 An example might be what "cvs import" tells you to do when you have
1705 just imported sources that have conflicts with local changes:
1707 % cvs checkout -jTAG:yesterday -jTAG module
1709 which tells CVS to merge in the changes made to the branch
1710 specified by TAG in the last 24 hours. If this is not what is
1711 intended, substitute "yesterday" for whatever format of date that
1712 is appropriate, like:
1714 % cvs checkout -jTAG:'1 week ago' -jTAG module
1716 * "cvs diff" now supports the special tags "BASE" and "HEAD". So,
1719 % cvs diff -u -rBASE -rHEAD
1721 will effectively show the changes made by others (in unidiff
1722 format) that will be merged into your working sources with your
1723 next "cvs update" command. "-rBASE" resolves to the revision that
1724 your working file is based on. "-rHEAD" resolves to the current
1725 head of the branch or trunk that you are working on.
1727 * The -P option of "cvs checkout" now means to Prune empty
1728 directories, as with "update". The default is to not remove empty
1729 directories. However, if you do "checkout" with any -r options, -P
1730 will be implied. I.e., checking out with a tag will cause empty
1731 directories to be pruned automatically.
1733 * The new file INSTALL describes how to install CVS, including
1734 detailed descriptions of interfaces to "configure".
1736 * The example loginfo file in examples/loginfo has been updated to
1737 use the perl script included in contrib/log.pl. The nice thing
1738 about this log program is that it records the revision numbers of
1739 your change in the log message.
1741 Example files for commitinfo and rcsinfo are now included in the
1744 * All "#if defined(__STDC__) && __STDC__ == 1" lines have been
1745 changed to be "#if __STDC__" to fix some problems with the former.
1747 * The lib/regex.[ch] files have been updated to the 1.3 release of
1748 the GNU regex package.
1750 * The ndbm emulation routines included with CVS 1.3 Beta-2 in the
1751 src/ndbm.[ch] files has been moved into the src/myndbm.[ch] files
1752 to avoid any conflict with the system <ndbm.h> header file. If
1753 you had a previous CVS 1.3 Beta release, you will want to "cvs
1754 remove ndbm.[ch]" form your copy of CVS as well.
1756 * "cvs add" and "cvs remove" are a bit more verbose, telling you
1757 what to do to add/remove your file permanently.
1759 * We no longer mess with /dev/tty in "commit" and "add".
1761 * More things are quiet with the -Q option set.
1763 * New src/config.h option: If CVS_BADROOT is set, CVS will not
1764 allow people really logged in as "root" to commit changes.
1766 * "cvs diff" exits with a status of 0 if there were no diffs, 1 if
1767 there were diffs, and 2 if there were errors.
1769 * "cvs -n diff" is now supported so that you can still run diffs
1770 even while in the middle of committing files.
1772 * Handling of the CVS/Entries file is now much more robust.
1774 * The default file ignore list now includes "*.so".
1776 * "cvs import" did not expand '@' in the log message correctly. It
1777 does now. Also, import now uses the ignore file facility
1780 Import will now tell you whether there were conflicts that need to
1781 be resolved, and how to resolve them.
1783 * "cvs log" has been changed so that you can "log" things that are
1784 not a part of the current release (in the Attic).
1786 * If you don't change the editor message on commit, CVS now prompts
1787 you with the choice:
1789 !)reuse this message unchanged for remaining dirs
1791 which allows you to tell CVS that you have no intention of changing
1792 the log message for the remainder of the commit.
1794 * It is no longer necessary to have CVSROOT set if you are using
1795 the -H option to get Usage information on the commands.
1797 * Command argument changes:
1798 checkout: -P handling changed as described above.
1799 New -j option (up to 2 can be specified)
1800 for doing rcsmerge kind of things on
1802 commit: -r option now supports committing to a
1803 numeric or symbolic tags, with some
1804 restrictions. Full consistency checks will
1806 Added "-f logfile" option, which tells
1807 commit to glean the log message from the
1808 specified file, rather than invoking the
1810 rtag: Added -b option to create a branch tag,
1811 useful for creating a patch for a previous
1812 release, or for forking development.
1813 tag: Added -b option to create a branch tag,
1814 useful for creating a patch for a previous
1815 release, or for forking development.
1816 update: New -j option (up to 2 can be specified)
1817 for doing rcsmerge kind of things on
1820 Thu Jan 9 10:51:35 MST 1992 Jeff Polk (polk at BSDI.COM)
1822 * Changes between CVS 1.3 Beta-1 and CVS 1.3 Beta-2
1824 * Thanks to K. Richard Pixley at Cygnus we now have function
1825 prototypes in all the files
1827 * Some small changes to configure for portability. There have
1828 been other portability problems submitted that have not been fixed
1829 (Brian will be working on those). Additionally all __STDC__
1830 tests have been modified to check __STDC__ against the constant 1
1831 (this is what the Second edition of K&R says must be true).
1833 * Lots of additional error checking for forked processes (run_exec)
1834 (thanks again to K. Richard Pixley)
1836 * Lots of miscellaneous bug fixes - including but certainly not
1838 various commit core dumps
1839 various update core dumps
1840 bogus results from status with numeric sticky tags
1841 commitprog used freed memory
1842 Entries file corruption caused by No_Difference
1843 commit to revision broken (now works if branch exists)
1844 ignore file processing broken for * and !
1845 ignore processing didn't handle memory reasonably
1846 miscellaneous bugs in the recursion processor
1847 file descriptor leak in ParseInfo
1848 CVSROOT.adm->CVSROOT rename bug
1851 * Reformatted all the code in src (with GNU indent) and then
1852 went back and fixed prototypes, etc since indent gets confused. The
1853 rationale is that it is better to do it sooner than later and now
1854 everything is consistent and will hopefully stay that way.
1855 The basic options to indent were: "-bad -bbb -bap -cdb -d0 -bl -bli0
1856 -nce -pcs -cs -cli4 -di1 -nbc -psl -lp -i4 -ip4 -c41" and then
1857 miscellaneous formatting fixes were applied. Note also that the
1858 "-nfc1" or "-nfca" may be appropriate in files where comments have
1859 been carefully formatted (e.g, modules.c).
1861 Sat Dec 14 20:35:22 1991 Brian Berliner (berliner at sun.com)
1863 * Changes between CVS 1.2 and CVS 1.3 Beta are described here.
1865 * Lots of portability work. CVS now uses the GNU "configure"
1866 script to dynamically determine the features provided by your
1867 system. It probably is not foolproof, but it is better than
1868 nothing. Please let me know of any portability problems. Some
1869 file names were changed to fit within 14-characters.
1871 * CVS has a new RCS parser that is much more flexible and
1872 extensible. It should read all known RCS ",v" format files.
1874 * Most of the commands now are fully recursive, rather than just
1875 operating on the current directory alone. This includes "commit",
1876 which makes it real easy to do an "atomic" commit of all the
1877 changes made to a CVS hierarchy of sources. Most of the commands
1878 also correctly handle file names that are in directories other than
1879 ".", including absolute path names. Commands now accept the "-R"
1880 option to force recursion on (though it is always the default now)
1881 and the "-l" option to force recursion off, doing just "." and not
1882 any sub-directories.
1884 * CVS supports many of the features provided with the RCS 5.x
1885 distribution - including the new "-k" keyword expansion options. I
1886 recommend using RCS 5.x (5.6 is the current official RCS version)
1887 and GNU diff 1.15 (or later) distributions with CVS.
1889 * Checking out files with symbolic tags/dates is now "sticky", in
1890 that CVS remembers the tag/date used for each file (and directory)
1891 and will use that tag/date automatically on the next "update" call.
1892 This stickyness also holds for files checked out with the the new
1893 RCS 5.x "-k" options.
1895 * The "cvs diff" command now recognizes all of the rcsdiff 5.x
1896 options. Unidiff format is available by installing the GNU
1897 diff 1.15 distribution.
1899 * The old "CVS.adm" directories created on checkout are now called
1900 "CVS" directories, to look more like "RCS" and "SCCS". Old CVS.adm
1901 directories are automagically converted to CVS directories. The
1902 old "CVSROOT.adm" directory within the source repository is
1903 automagically changed into a "CVSROOT" directory as well.
1905 * Symbolic links in the source repository are fully supported ONLY
1906 if you use RCS 5.6 or later and (of course) your system supports
1909 * A history database has been contributed which maintains the
1910 history of certain CVS operations, as well as providing a wide array
1911 of querying options.
1913 * The "cvs" program has a "-n" option which can be used with the
1914 "update" command to show what would be updated without actually
1915 doing the update, like: "cvs -n update". All usage statements
1916 have been cleaned up and made more verbose.
1918 * The module database parsing has been rewritten. The new format
1919 is compatible with the old format, but with much more
1920 functionality. It allows modules to be created that grab pieces or
1921 whole directories from various different parts of your source
1922 repository. Module-relative specifications are also correctly
1923 recognized now, like "cvs checkout module/file.c".
1925 * A configurable template can be specified such that on a "commit",
1926 certain directories can supply a template that the user must fill
1927 before completing the commit operation.
1929 * A configurable pre-commit checking program can be specified which
1930 will run to verify that a "commit" can happen. This feature can be
1931 used to restrict certain users from changing certain pieces of the
1932 source repository, or denying commits to the entire source
1935 * The new "cvs export" command is much like "checkout", but
1936 establishes defaults suitable for exporting code to others (expands
1937 out keywords, forces the use of a symbolic tag, and does not create
1938 "CVS" directories within the checked out sources.
1940 * The new "cvs import" command replaces the deprecated "checkin"
1941 shell script and is used to import sources into CVS control. It is
1942 also much faster for the first-time import. Some algorithmic
1943 improvements have also been made to reduce the number of
1944 conflicting files on next-time imports.
1946 * The new "cvs admin" command is basically an interface to the
1947 "rcs" program. (Not yet implemented very well).
1949 * Signal handling (on systems with BSD or POSIX signals) is much
1950 improved. Interrupting CVS now works with a single interrupt!
1952 * CVS now invokes RCS commands by direct fork/exec rather than
1953 calling system(3). This improves performance by removing a call to
1954 the shell to parse the arguments.
1956 * Support for the .cvsignore file has been contributed. CVS will
1957 now show "unknown" files as "? filename" as the result of an "update"
1958 command. The .cvsignore file can be used to add files to the
1959 current list of ignored files so that they won't show up as unknown.
1961 * Command argument changes:
1962 cvs: Added -l to turn off history logging.
1963 Added -n to show what would be done without actually
1965 Added -q/-Q for quiet and really quiet settings.
1966 Added -t to show debugging trace.
1967 add: Added -k to allow RCS 5.x -k options to be specified.
1968 admin: New command; an interface to rcs(1).
1969 checkout: Added -A to reset sticky tags/date/options.
1970 Added -N to not shorten module paths.
1971 Added -R option to force recursion.
1972 Changed -p (prune empty directories) to -P option.
1973 Changed -f option; forcing tags match is now default.
1974 Added -p option to checkout module to standard output.
1975 Added -s option to cat the modules db with status.
1976 Added -d option to checkout in the specified directory.
1977 Added -k option to use RCS 5.x -k support.
1978 commit: Removed -a option; use -l instead.
1980 Added -l option to disable recursion.
1981 Added -R option to force recursion.
1982 If no files specified, commit is recursive.
1983 diff: Now recognizes all RCS 5.x rcsdiff options.
1984 Added -l option to disable recursion.
1985 Added -R option to force recursion.
1986 history: New command; displays info about CVS usage.
1987 import: Replaces "checkin" shell script; imports sources
1988 under CVS control. Ignores files on the ignore
1989 list (see -I option or .cvsignore description above).
1990 export: New command; like "checkout", but w/special options
1991 turned on by default to facilitate exporting sources.
1992 join: Added -B option to join from base of the branch;
1993 join now defaults to only joining with the top two
1994 revisions on the branch.
1995 Added -k option for RCS 5.x -k support.
1996 log: Supports all RCS 5.x options.
1997 Added -l option to disable recursion.
1998 Added -R option to force recursion.
1999 patch: Changed -f option; forcing tags match is now default.
2000 Added -c option to force context-style diffs.
2001 Added -u option to support unidiff-style diffs.
2002 Added -V option to support RCS specific-version
2003 keyword expansion formats.
2004 Added -R option to force recursion.
2005 remove: No option changes. It's a bit more verbose.
2006 rtag: Equivalent to the old "cvs tag" command.
2007 No option changes. It's a lot faster for re-tag.
2008 status: New output formats with more information.
2009 Added -l option to disable recursion.
2010 Added -R option to force recursion.
2011 Added -v option to show symbolic tags for files.
2012 tag: Functionality changed to tag checked out files
2013 rather than modules; use "rtag" command to get the
2014 old "cvs tag" behaviour.
2015 update: Added -A to reset sticky tags/date/options.
2016 Changed -p (prune empty directories) to -P option.
2017 Changed -f option; forcing tags match is now default.
2018 Added -p option to checkout module to standard output.
2019 Added -I option to add files to the ignore list.
2020 Added -R option to force recursion.
2024 * Jeff Polk <polk@bsdi.com> rewrote most of the grody code of CVS
2025 1.2. He made just about everything dynamic (by using malloc),
2026 added a generic hashed list manager, re-wrote the modules database
2027 parsing in a compatible - but extended way, generalized directory
2028 hierarchy recursion for virtually all the commands (including
2029 commit!), generalized the loginfo file to be used for pre-commit
2030 checks and commit templates, wrote a new and flexible RCS parser,
2031 fixed an uncountable number of bugs, and helped in the design of
2032 future CVS features. If there's anything gross left in CVS, it's
2035 * David G. Grubbs <dgg@odi.com> contributed the CVS "history" and
2036 "release" commands. As well as the ever-so-useful "-n" option of
2037 CVS which tells CVS to show what it would do, without actually
2038 doing it. He also contributed support for the .cvsignore file.
2040 * Paul Sander, HaL Computer Systems, Inc. <paul@hal.com> wrote and
2041 contributed the code in lib/sighandle.c. I added support for
2042 POSIX, BSD, and non-POSIX/non-BSD systems.
2044 * Free Software Foundation contributed the "configure" script and
2045 other compatibility support in the "lib" directory, which will help
2046 make CVS much more portable.
2048 * Many others have contributed bug reports and enhancement requests.
2049 Some have even submitted actual code which I have not had time yet
2050 to integrate into CVS. Maybe for the next release.
2052 * Thanks to you all!
2054 Wed Feb 6 10:10:58 1991 Brian Berliner (berliner at sun.com)
2056 * Changes from CVS 1.0 Patchlevel 1 to CVS 1.0 Patchlevel 2; also
2057 known as "Changes from CVS 1.1 to CVS 1.2".
2059 * Major new support with this release is the ability to use the
2060 recently-posted RCS 5.5 distribution with CVS 1.2. See below for
2061 other assorted bug-fixes that have been thrown in.
2063 * ChangeLog (new): Added Emacs-style change-log file to CVS 1.2
2064 release. Chronological description of changes between release.
2066 * README: Small fixes to installation instructions. My email
2067 address is now "berliner@sun.com".
2069 * src/Makefile: Removed "rcstime.h". Removed "depend" rule.
2071 * src/partime.c: Updated to RCS 5.5 version with hooks for CVS.
2072 * src/maketime.c: Updated to RCS 5.5 version with hooks for CVS.
2073 * src/rcstime.h: Removed from the CVS 1.2 distribution.
2074 Thanks to Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> for these changes.
2076 * src/checkin.csh: Support for RCS 5.5 parsing.
2077 Thanks to Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> for this change.
2079 * src/collect_sets.c (Collect_Sets): Be quieter if "-f" option is
2080 specified. When checking out files on-top-of other files that CVS
2081 doesn't know about, run a diff in the hopes that they are really
2082 the same file before aborting.
2084 * src/commit.c (branch_number): Fix for RCS 5.5 parsing.
2085 Thanks to Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> for this change.
2087 * src/commit.c (do_editor): Bug fix - fprintf missing argument
2088 which sometimes caused core dumps.
2090 * src/modules.c (process_module): Properly NULL-terminate
2091 update_dir[] in all cases.
2093 * src/no_difference.c (No_Difference): The wrong RCS revision was
2094 being registered in certain (strange) cases.
2096 * src/patch.c (get_rcsdate): New algorithm. No need to call
2097 maketime() any longer.
2098 Thanks to Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> for this change.
2100 * src/patchlevel.h: Increased patch level to "2".
2102 * src/subr.c (isdir, islink): Changed to compare stat mode bits
2105 * src/tag.c (tag_file): Added support for following symbolic links
2106 that are in the master source repository when tagging. Made tag
2107 somewhat quieter in certain cases.
2109 * src/update.c (update_process_lists): Unlink the user's file if it
2110 was put on the Wlist, meaning that the user's file is not modified
2111 and its RCS file has been removed by someone else.
2113 * src/update.c (update): Support for "cvs update dir" to correctly
2114 just update the argument directory "dir".
2116 * src/cvs.h: Fixes for RCS 5.5 parsing.
2117 * src/version_number.c (Version_Number): Fixes for parsing RCS 5.5
2118 and older RCS-format files.
2119 Thanks to Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> for these changes.
2121 * src/version_number.c (Version_Number): Bug fixes for "-f" option.
2122 Bug fixes for parsing with certain branch numbers. RCS
2123 revision/symbol parsing is much more solid now.
2125 Wed Feb 14 10:01:33 1990 Brian Berliner (berliner at sun.com)
2127 * Changes from CVS 1.0 Patchlevel 0 to CVS 1.0 Patchlevel 1; also
2128 known as "Changes from CVS 1.0 to CVS 1.1".
2130 * src/patch.c (get_rcsdate): Portability fix. Replaced call to
2131 timelocal() with call to maketime().
2133 Mon Nov 19 23:15:11 1990 Brian Berliner (berliner at prisma.com)
2135 * Sent CVS 1.0 release to comp.sources.unix moderator and FSF.
2137 * Special thanks to Dick Grune <dick@cs.vu.nl> for his work on the
2138 1986 version of CVS and making it available to the world. Dick's
2139 version is available on uunet.uu.net in the
2140 comp.sources.unix/volume6/cvs directory.
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