The K Desktop Environment

3.2. Browsing the history

If the used repository has logging enabled, Cervisia can present you a history of certain events like checkouts, commits, rtags, updates and releases. Choose History from the View menu, and Cervisia will issue the command

 cvs history -e -a

Note

This fetches the complete logging file from the server, i.e. a list of the events for all users and all modules. This can be a huge amount of data!

Now you can see the list of events, sorted by date. In the second column, the type of the event is shown:


Figure 3-2. A screenshot of Cervisia's history dialog


You can sort the list by other criteria simply by clicking on the respective column header. In order to sort out the history entries you are interested in, there are various filter options activated by check boxes:

Special characters recognized by the regular expression matcher are: