This "contrib" directory is a place holder for code/scripts sent to me by contributors around the world. This README file will be kept up-to-date from release to release. BUT, we must point out that these contributions are really, REALLY UNSUPPORTED. In fact, we probably don't even know what some of them really do. We certainly do not guarantee to have tried them, or ported them to work with this CVS distribution. If you have questions, your best bet is to contact the original author, but you should not necessarily expect a reply, since the author may not be available at the address given. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK -- and all that stuff. "Unsupported" also means that no one has volunteered to accept and check in changes to this directory. So submissions for new scripts to add here are unlikely to be accepted. Suggested changes to the existing scripts here conceivably might, but that isn't clear either, unless of course they come from the original author of the script. If you have some software that works with CVS that you wish to offer it is suggested that you make it available by FTP or HTTP and then announce it on the info-cvs mailing list. An attempt at a table of Contents for this directory: README This file. clmerge A perl script to handle merge conflicts in GNU style ChangeLog files . Contributed by Tom Tromey . cln_hist A perl script to compress your $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/history file, as it can grow quite large after extended use. Contributed by David G. Grubbs commit_prep A perl script, to be combined with log_accum.pl, to log_accum provide for a way to combine the individual log messages of a multi-directory "commit" into a single log message, and mail the result somewhere. Can also do other checks for $Id and that you are committing the correct revision of the file. Read the comments carefully. Contributed by David Hampton . cvs2vendor A shell script to move changes from a repository that was started without a vendor branch to one that has a vendor branch. Contributed by Greg A. Woods . cvs_acls A perl script that implements Access Control Lists cvs_acls.html by using the "commitinfo" hook provided with the "cvs commit" command. Contributed by David G. Grubbs . Enhanced by Peter Connolly . cvshelp.man An introductory manual page written by Lowell Skoog . It is most likely out-of-date relative to CVS 1.3, but still may be useful. debug_check_log A shell script to help analyze sanity check failures. Contributed by Derek R. Price . descend A shell script that can be used to recursively descend.man descend through a directory. In CVS 1.2, this was very useful, since many of the commands were not recursive. In CVS 1.3 (and later), however, most of the commands are recursive. However, this may still come in handy. Contributed by Lowell Skoog dirfns A shar file which contains some code that might help your system support opendir/readdir/closedir, if it does not already. Copied from the C-News distribution. /usr/share/doc/cvs/intro.txt in Debian: intro.doc A user's view of what you need to know to get started with CVS. Contributed by . log A perl script suitable for including in your $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/loginfo file for logging commit changes. Includes the RCS revision of the change as part of the log. Contributed by Kevin Samborn . log_accum See commit_prep. mfpipe Another perl script for logging. Allows you to pipe the log message to a file and/or send mail to some alias. Contributed by John Clyne . pvcs2rcs A perl script to convert a PVCS tree to an RCS tree. rcs-5.7-commitid.patch Patch to RCS 5.7 sources of 1995-06-16 to support the newphrase 'commitid' used by CVS and CVSNT. rcs-5.7-sameuserlocks.patch Patch to RCS 5.7 sources from 2003-10-24 submitted to both help-rcs@gnu.org and Redhat. Included in many Redhat GNU/Linux distribution RPM files. A new -S switch to the co command will disallow the user to check out the same file twice. rcs-5.7-security.patch Patch to RCS 5.7 sources from 2001-01-05 included in many GNU/Linux distributions as applied by Preston Brown tmpfile security patch from Olaf Kirch . rcs-to-cvs Script to import sources that may have been under RCS control already. Contributed by Per Cederqvist . rcs2log A shell script to create a ChangeLog-format file given only a set of RCS files. Contributed by Paul Eggert . rcs2sccs A shell script to convert simple RCS files into SCCS files, originally gleaned off the network somewhere (originally by "kenc") and modified by Jerry Jelinek and Brian Berliner to increase robustness and add support for one-level of branches. rcslock A perl script that can be added to your commitinfo file that tries to determine if your RCS file is currently locked by someone else, as might be the case for a binary file. Contributed by John Rouillard . sandbox_status sandbox_status.man Identifies files added, changed, or removed in a checked out CVS tree; also notices unknown files. Contributed by Lowell Skoog sccs2rcs A C-shell script that can convert (some) SCCS files into RCS files, retaining the info contained in the SCCS file (like dates, author, and log message). Contributed by Ken Cox . verify_repo A perl script to check an entire repository for corruption. Contributed by Donald Sharp .