SYNOPSIS

       o   cvsrdiff2cvsweb [--cvsweb=URL] [--urlsuffix=SFX] [--branch=TAG]
           [--output-file=FILE] rdiff-file

       o   cvsrdiff2cvsweb [--cvsweb=URL] [--urlsuffix=SFX] [--branch=TAG]
           [--output-file=FILE] --repository=REPO --rev1=REV1 --rev2=REV2 mod-
           ule...

       o   cvsrdiff2cvsweb --version

DESCRIPTION

       The cvsrdiff2cvsweb program takes output from "cvs rdiff -s" (change
       summary) and converts it into HTML. Names of changed (added, updatet or
       deleted) files are replaced with hyperlinks to a "cvsweb" CGI script.

       This means you can click on any of the updated files and see the CVS
       log (change history) and have access to all the revisions and deltas.

       (The cgi-script "cvsweb.cgi" was originally written by Bill Fenner
       <fenner@freebsd.org> for the FreeBSD project. It allows browsing of
       CVS-repositories with a HTML-browser. CVS is a popular version control
       system.)

       Options may be abbreviated to a unique prefix. The options are as fol-
       lows:

       --cvsweb=URL
           Specify URL of cvsweb.cgi script.

       --urlsuffix=SFX
           Specify some extra information for appending to generated URLs.
           (You should not type a leading "?" or "&" character because it will
           be added automatically.)

       --branch=TAG
           Tell "cvsweb.cgi" that you are only interested in file revisions on
           the specified branch.

       --output-file=FILENAME
           Specify the output file. If no output file is specified standard
           output is used.

       --repository=REPOSITORY
           This is used to invoke the "cvs rdiff" command. This option
           requires options "--rev1" and "--rev2" too.

       --rev1=REVISION1 --rev2=REVISION2
           Specify which revisions to compare. Unless "CVSROOT" is set in your
           environment this will also require option "--repository".

       --version
           Print version information and exit.

EXAMPLE

       Suppose you are running the FreeBSD operating and want to know in
       detail how the networking code changed between FreeBSD 6.1 and the lat-
       est 6-X-stable.

       "CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs"

       "export CVSROOT; cvs login # password 'anoncvs'"

       "cvs rdiff -s -r RELENG_6_1_0_RELEASE -r RELENG_6 sys/netinet
       >netinet.rdiff"

       "cvsrdiff2cvsweb -cvsweb http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi
       -branch RELENG_6 -out netinet.html netinet.rdiff"

       Now open netinet.html with your favorite browser!

BUGS

       There is no provision to invoke "cvs rdiff -s" with custom options or
       dates ("-D") rather than revision numbers or tags. It is however possi-
       ble to run "cvs rdiff -s" manually and feed the output into "cvs-
       rdiff2cvsweb".

AUTHOR

       Martin Kammerhofer <mkamm@gmx.net>



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