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Several options (shown above as `-report') control what kind of report is generated:

-c
Report on each time commit was used (i.e., each time the repository was modified).

-e
Everything (all record types); equivalent to specifying `-xMACFROGWUT'.

-m module
Report on a particular module. (You can meaningfully use `-m' more than once on the command line.)

-o
Report on checked-out modules.

-T
Report on all tags.

-x type
Extract a particular set of record types type from the cvs history. The types are indicated by single letters, which you may specify in combination.

Certain commands have a single record type:

F
release
O
checkout
T
rtag
One of four record types may result from an update:

C
A merge was necessary but collisions were detected (requiring manual merging).
G
A merge was necessary and it succeeded.
U
A working file was copied from the repository.
W
The working copy of a file was deleted during update (because it was gone from the repository).
One of three record types results from commit:

A
A file was added for the first time.
M
A file was modified.
R
A file was removed.
The options shown as `-flags' constrain or expand the report without requiring option arguments:

-a
Show data for all users (the default is to show data only for the user executing history).

-l
Show last modification only.

-w
Show only the records for modifications done from the same working directory where history is executing.
The options shown as `-options args' constrain the report based on an argument:

-b str
Show data back to a record containing the string str in either the module name, the file name, or the repository path.

-D date
Show data since date. This is slightly different from the normal use of `-D date', which selects the newest revision older than date.

-p repository
Show data for a particular source repository (you can specify several `-p' options on the same command line).

-r rev
Show records referring to revisions since the revision or tag named rev appears in individual rcs files. Each rcs file is searched for the revision or tag.

-t tag
Show records since tag tag was last added to the the history file. This differs from the `-r' flag above in that it reads only the history file, not the rcs files, and is much faster.

-u name
Show records for user name.

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