[cvsnt] Re: What is this commit ID?

[Tony Hoyle]

On Fri, 2 May 2003 17:43:17 +0200, "Koen" <no at ssppaamm.com> wrote:

>Hi!
>I was just "checking out" (in the English non-CVS sense ;-) ) some
>histories of files stored in my CVS repository, and noticed that
>sometimes, a line reading something like "; commitid: f803eb238ac4521"
>appears in the message for the commit log (but not always).
>Is this normal? If so, could the reason that it's not *always* there be
>that this was only introduced in a specific version of CVSNT and was not
>there before? Or should I be worried about this?

The commit id uniquely marks each commit, so you can make comparisons based on
that commit only - it's only there in newer cvsnt's (not sure when it was
introduced... somewhere around the 6x builds).

eg. cvs diff -r @f803eb238ac4521 myfile.txt

Tony