Re: Customizing article expiry

[Christoph Conrad <cc@cli.de>]

Hello Paul,

you wrote:

    >> Where are you guys getting these recent ChangeLogs?  When I run
    >> `cvs update'  today 01/07   The ChangeLog is ancient.  Most recent
    >> entry is 01/02/02.
    Paul> $ find . -name ChangeLog -print -exec head -1 '{}' \;

There's a very fine tool available at

http://www.red-bean.com/cvs2cl/

,----
| This Perl script does what you think it does: it produces a GNU-style
| ChangeLog for CVS-controlled sources, by running "cvs log" and parsing
| the output. Duplicate log messages get unified in the Right Way. If
| you don't know what any of that means, then you're doing fine, just
| keep on truckin' (i.e., hit the Back button on your browser).
`----

It works recursively on a CVS tree and has some options for
controlling the output.

I call it (on Windows NT) from a batchfile with

,----
| @perl.exe -S cvs2cl.pl -S --no-wrap %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
`----

Best regards,
Christoph Conrad
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