CVS history....can't get it work

An really embarrassing question: I have specified my CVS root, and within this CVS root I have a repository, let call it REP. Within REP, I have a file TEST.TXT where I wanna see all revisions of it. Unfortunately, I cant get this work, i tried the following:

cvs history TEST.TXT
cvs history /REP/TEST.TXT
cvs history REP/TEST.TXT

Anyone an idea what I am doing wrong? Do i miss a command that tel开发者_开发技巧ls CVS which repository I am referring to?

Many thanks!

I vaguely remember cvs... :-)

The usual way to tell cvs which repository you are using is with the CVSROOT environment variable. If the repository is on localhost then this can just be a full pathname.

The usual way to get revision history on a file is not to examine the repository-wide history file, but rather it is to run the cvs log command which will extract the rcs revision information for a given file or subtree.

Example:

$ echo $CVSROOT
/home/ross/cvs
$ cvs log q.rb

RCS file: /home/ross/cvs/R3/q.rb,v
Working file: q.rb
head: 1.1
branch: 1.1.1
locks: strict
access list:
symbolic names:
    R1: 1.1.1.1
    ROSS: 1.1.1
keyword substitution: kv
total revisions: 2; selected revisions: 2
description:
----------------------------
revision 1.1
date: 2009-11-12 10:36:27 -0800;  author: ross;  state: Exp;  commitid: MlYKy8V908Lmagbu;
branches:  1.1.1;
Initial revision
----------------------------
revision 1.1.1.1
date: 2009-11-12 10:36:27 -0800;  author: ross;  state: Exp;  lines: +0 -0;  commitid: MlYKy8V908Lmagbu;
initial import
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