One thing I would find useful is to ask cvs questions of the form 'which
of these files changed betwen these two dates, who changed them, and what
was the log message'. This can be done with cvs log (using -d -s and -w):
however this gives a vast amount of irrelevant information, including for
files which haven't changed. The only thing it seems to be possible to
get rid of is the tags (using -N).

Specifically, I'd like a way of getting the following behaviours:
1. If no revisions are selected (by -d -s -w -b -r) then nothing to be
printed about the file.
2. Only the name of the working file (perhaps and/or the RCS history file)
to be printed, together with the revisions selected. 

If there isn't a way of doing this (except by running the output through
a perl script or similar) then perhaps options should be added in future
versions of CVS, because otherwise it makes the -d -s -w switches
considerably less useful than they might be.

(I'm using version 1.10.2, with 1.9 documentation, but I don't think anything
has changed in that area since.)

Thanks,

Colin

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