Generally,our fixes/patches for any bugs involves changes in multiple files and we will commit all these files in a single shot.
In SVN, for each commit (may involve multiple files),it will increment revision number of whole repository by one. So, we can easily link all the multiple files that went in a single commit.
Now the difficulty with the same case in CVS is that it will increment the revision numbers of all the files individually. Let's say if a commit involves the following files:
file1.c //revision assigned as part of this commit..1.5.10.2
file2.c //revision assigned as part of this commit..1.41.10.1
and the comment given for this commit is "First Bug Fix".
Now, the only way to get all files checked-in as part of this commit is by searching through all the cvs logs for comment "First Bug Fix" and hopefully it will return only the two file revisions mentioned above.
Please share your views on if there is any better way in CVS to keep track of all files checked-in in a single commit instead of relaying on comment given as part of commit.
I think CVSps might do what you are looking for.
"CVSps is a program for generating 'patchset' information from a CVS repository. A patchset in this case is defined as a set of changes made to a collection of files, and all committed at the same time (using a single 'cvs commit' command). This information is valuable to seeing the big picture of the evolution of a cvs project. While cvs tracks revision information, it is often difficult to see what changes were committed 'atomically' to the repository."
This cvsps relies on cvs client. Make sure you have proper version of cvs which supports rlog command (1.1.1)