1This "contrib" directory is a place holder for code/scripts sent to me 2by contributors around the world. This README file will be kept 3up-to-date from release to release. BUT, we must point out that these 4contributions are really, REALLY UNSUPPORTED. In fact, we probably 5don't even know what some of them really do. We certainly do not 6guarantee to have tried them, or ported them to work with this CVS 7distribution. If you have questions, your best bet is to contact the 8original author, but you should not necessarily expect a reply, since 9the author may not be available at the address given. 10 11USE AT YOUR OWN RISK -- and all that stuff. 12 13"Unsupported" also means that no one has volunteered to accept and check 14in changes to this directory. So submissions for new scripts to add 15here are unlikely to be accepted. Suggested changes to the existing 16scripts here conceivably might, but that isn't clear either, unless of 17course they come from the original author of the script. 18 19If you have some software that works with CVS that you wish to offer it 20is suggested that you make it available by FTP or HTTP and then announce 21it on the info-cvs mailing list. 22 23There is a web page of software related to CVS at the following URL which 24would presumably be willing to list your software. 25 26 http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs-index.html 27 28An attempt at a table of Contents for this directory: 29 30 README This file. 31 log A perl script suitable for including in your 32 $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/loginfo file for logging commit 33 changes. Includes the RCS revision of the change 34 as part of the log. 35 Contributed by Kevin Samborn <samborn@sunrise.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>. 44 mfpipe Another perl script for logging. Allows you to 45 pipe the log message to a file and/or send mail 46 to some alias. 47 Contributed by John Clyne <clyne@niwot.scd.ucar.edu>. 48 rcs-to-cvs Script to import sources that may have been under 49 RCS control already. 50 Contributed by Per Cederqvist <ceder@lysator.liu.se>. 51 cvscheck Identifies files added, changed, or removed in a 52 cvscheck.man checked out CVS tree; also notices unknown files. 53 Contributed by Lowell Skoog <fluke!lowell@uunet.uu.net> 54 cvshelp.man An introductory manual page written by Lowell Skoog 55 <fluke!lowell@uunet.uu.net>. It is most likely 56 out-of-date relative to CVS 1.3, but still may be 57 useful. 58 dirfns A shar file which contains some code that might 59 help your system support opendir/readdir/closedir, 60 if it does not already. 61 Copied from the C-News distribution. 62 rcslock A perl script that can be added to your commitinfo 63 file that tries to determine if your RCS file is 64 currently locked by someone else, as might be the 65 case for a binary file. 66 Contributed by John Rouillard <rouilj@cs.umb.edu>. 67 cvs_acls A perl script that implements Access Control Lists 68 by using the "commitinfo" hook provided with the 69 "cvs commit" command. 70 Contributed by David G. Grubbs <dgg@ksr.com>. 71 descend A shell script that can be used to recursively 72 descend.man descend through a directory. In CVS 1.2, this was 73 very useful, since many of the commands were not 74 recursive. In CVS 1.3 (and later), however, most of 75 the commands are recursive. However, this may still 76 come in handy. 77 Contributed by Lowell Skoog <fluke!lowell@uunet.uu.net> 78 cln_hist A perl script to compress your 79 $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/history file, as it can grow quite 80 large after extended use. 81 Contributed by David G. Grubbs <dgg@ksr.com> 82 sccs2rcs A C-shell script that can convert (some) SCCS files 83 into RCS files, retaining the info contained in the 84 SCCS file (like dates, author, and log message). 85 Contributed by Ken Cox <kenstir@viewlogic.com>. 86 intro.doc A user's view of what you need to know to get 87 started with CVS. 88 Contributed by <Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl>. 89 rcs2sccs A shell script to convert simple RCS files into 90 SCCS files, originally gleaned off the network 91 somewhere (originally by "kenc") and modified by 92 Jerry Jelinek <jerry@rmtc.Central.Sun.COM> and 93 Brian Berliner <berliner@sun.com> to increase 94 robustness and add support for one-level of branches. 95 rcs2log A shell script to create a ChangeLog-format file 96 given only a set of RCS files. 97 Contributed by Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>. 98 clmerge A perl script to handle merge conflicts in GNU 99 style ChangeLog files . 100 Contributed by Tom Tromey <tromey@busco.lanl.gov>. 101 cvs2vendor A shell script to move changes from a repository 102 that was started without a vendor branch to one 103 that has a vendor branch. 104 Contributed by Greg A. Woods <woods@planix.com> 105