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1 This "contrib" directory is a place holder for code/scripts sent to me
2 by contributors around the world. This README file will be kept
3 up-to-date from release to release. BUT, we must point out that these
4 contributions are really, REALLY UNSUPPORTED. In fact, we probably
5 don't even know what some of them really do. We certainly do not
6 guarantee to have tried them, or ported them to work with this CVS
7 distribution. If you have questions, your best bet is to contact the
8 original author, but you should not necessarily expect a reply, since
9 the author may not be available at the address given.
11 USE AT YOUR OWN RISK -- and all that stuff.
13 "Unsupported" also means that no one has volunteered to accept and check
14 in changes to this directory. So submissions for new scripts to add
15 here are unlikely to be accepted. Suggested changes to the existing
16 scripts here conceivably might, but that isn't clear either, unless of
17 course they come from the original author of the script.
19 If you have some software that works with CVS that you wish to offer it
20 is suggested that you make it available by FTP or HTTP and then announce
21 it on the info-cvs mailing list.
23 An attempt at a table of Contents for this directory:
25 README This file.
27 clmerge A perl script to handle merge conflicts in GNU
28 style ChangeLog files .
29 Contributed by Tom Tromey <tromey@busco.lanl.gov>.
31 cln_hist A perl script to compress your
32 $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/history file, as it can grow quite
33 large after extended use.
34 Contributed by David G. Grubbs <dgg@ksr.com>
36 commit_prep A perl script, to be combined with log_accum.pl, to
37 log_accum provide for a way to combine the individual log
38 messages of a multi-directory "commit" into a
39 single log message, and mail the result somewhere.
40 Can also do other checks for $Id and that you are
41 committing the correct revision of the file.
42 Read the comments carefully.
43 Contributed by David Hampton <hampton@cisco.com>.
45 cvs2vendor A shell script to move changes from a repository
46 that was started without a vendor branch to one
47 that has a vendor branch.
48 Contributed by Greg A. Woods <woods@planix.com>.
50 cvs_acls A perl script that implements Access Control Lists
51 cvs_acls.html by using the "commitinfo" hook provided with the
52 "cvs commit" command.
53 Contributed by David G. Grubbs <dgg@ksr.com>.
54 Enhanced by Peter Connolly <Peter.Connolly@cnet.com>.
56 cvshelp.man An introductory manual page written by Lowell Skoog
57 <fluke!lowell@uunet.uu.net>. It is most likely
58 out-of-date relative to CVS 1.3, but still may be
59 useful.
61 debug_check_log A shell script to help analyze sanity check failures.
62 Contributed by Derek R. Price <derek@ximbiot.com>.
64 descend A shell script that can be used to recursively
65 descend.man descend through a directory. In CVS 1.2, this was
66 very useful, since many of the commands were not
67 recursive. In CVS 1.3 (and later), however, most of
68 the commands are recursive. However, this may still
69 come in handy.
70 Contributed by Lowell Skoog <fluke!lowell@uunet.uu.net>
72 dirfns A shar file which contains some code that might
73 help your system support opendir/readdir/closedir,
74 if it does not already.
75 Copied from the C-News distribution.
77 intro.doc A user's view of what you need to know to get
78 started with CVS.
79 Contributed by <Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl>.
81 log A perl script suitable for including in your
82 $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/loginfo file for logging commit
83 changes. Includes the RCS revision of the change
84 as part of the log.
85 Contributed by Kevin Samborn <samborn@sunrise.com>.
87 log_accum See commit_prep.
89 mfpipe Another perl script for logging. Allows you to
90 pipe the log message to a file and/or send mail
91 to some alias.
92 Contributed by John Clyne <clyne@niwot.scd.ucar.edu>.
94 pvcs2rcs A perl script to convert a PVCS tree to an RCS tree.
96 rcs-5.7-commitid.patch
97 Patch to RCS 5.7 sources of 1995-06-16 to support
98 the newphrase 'commitid' used by CVS and CVSNT.
100 rcs-5.7-sameuserlocks.patch
101 Patch to RCS 5.7 sources from 2003-10-24
102 submitted to both help-rcs@gnu.org and Redhat.
103 Included in many Redhat GNU/Linux distribution
104 RPM files. A new -S switch to the co command
105 will disallow the user to check out the same
106 file twice.
108 rcs-5.7-security.patch
109 Patch to RCS 5.7 sources from 2001-01-05
110 included in many GNU/Linux distributions as applied
111 by Preston Brown <pbrown@redhat.com>
112 tmpfile security patch from Olaf Kirch <okir@lst.de>.
114 rcs-to-cvs Script to import sources that may have been under
115 RCS control already.
116 Contributed by Per Cederqvist <ceder@lysator.liu.se>.
118 rcs2log A shell script to create a ChangeLog-format file
119 given only a set of RCS files.
120 Contributed by Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>.
122 rcs2sccs A shell script to convert simple RCS files into
123 SCCS files, originally gleaned off the network
124 somewhere (originally by "kenc") and modified by
125 Jerry Jelinek <jerry@rmtc.Central.Sun.COM> and
126 Brian Berliner <berliner@sun.com> to increase
127 robustness and add support for one-level of branches.
129 rcslock A perl script that can be added to your commitinfo
130 file that tries to determine if your RCS file is
131 currently locked by someone else, as might be the
132 case for a binary file.
133 Contributed by John Rouillard <rouilj@cs.umb.edu>.
135 sandbox_status
136 sandbox_status.man
137 Identifies files added, changed, or removed in a
138 checked out CVS tree; also notices unknown files.
139 Contributed by Lowell Skoog <fluke!lowell@uunet.uu.net>
141 sccs2rcs A C-shell script that can convert (some) SCCS files
142 into RCS files, retaining the info contained in the
143 SCCS file (like dates, author, and log message).
144 Contributed by Ken Cox <kenstir@viewlogic.com>.
146 verify_repo A perl script to check an entire repository for
147 corruption.
148 Contributed by Donald Sharp <sharpd@cisco.com>.