CVS: View History via terminal or CLI
I'm not really an expert with CVS, and unlike other VCS, running it's history would be easier, so I document this stuff which I'm forgetful when doing a history on CVS. Issuing, $> cvs history and encountered the error below, cvs history: Unknown method (`extssh') in CVSROOT. cvs history: in directory .: cvs history: ignoring CVS/Root because it does not contain a valid root. cvs history: No CVSROOT specified! Please use the `-d' option cvs [history aborted]: or set the CVSROOT environment variable. So what I did, I use the -d option and achieve the below result, cvs -d :ext:username@hostname:/path/cvs/project history -e so the -e will do everything involve in its CVS history reports with all record types. Hope this helps.