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I have a local copy of an old cvs depo that contains the CVS folders. The cvs server no longer exists. Is it possible to view the commit history and comments for the changes that were made in the depo? Would I have to e.g. migrate the depo to git or a newer version control system before I can do this?

I tried installing SmartCVS and using it to view the logs, but when I do SmartCVS still attempts to contact the server, fails, and shows me nothing.

Is there a way to view any kind of history logs using only what I have locally?

culix
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If you can find a *,v file, then you can view the history with rlog. Remember that cvs is just a wrapper around RCS, so all the standard RCS commands will work with your cvs files. (Read the manpages for ci, co, rlog, rcs, rcsdiff, etc.)

William Pursell
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