Using Gource with CVS projects

cvs2cl

cvs2cl is script that converts CVS log output into more useful formats, including XML, which Gource is able to read as of version 0.29:

cd my-cvs-project
cvs2cl --chrono --stdout --xml -g-q > my-cvs-project.xml
gource my-cvs-project.xml

cvs-exp

NOTE: support for cvs-exp is deprecated.

cvs-exp.pl is a tool which converts the CVS log output into a more conventional changes grouped together into chronological order that Gource knows how to read.

Assuming cvs-expl.pl is installed (and you have perl), you can generate a log from your CVS project and run in Gource by doing the following:

cd my-cvs-project
cvs-exp.pl -notree > my-cvs-project.log
gource my-cvs-project.log

Comment by ppopchik...@gmail.com, Nov 19, 2009

Could you post another location of cvs-exp? Because current link is broken.

Comment by project member acaudw...@gmail.com, Nov 19, 2009

I've updated the link to a locally hosted copy of the script. Thanks for pointing that out.

Comment by maximz...@gmail.com, Feb 9, 2010

Take two:

In Windows I had to:

install Perl (...of course)
edit cvs-exp.pl to change "/dev/null" to "nul"
convert the results to Unix line endings

Comment by chre...@gmail.com, Mar 19, 2010

I'm getting an error when I try to run gource on my cvs log.

gource: unsupported log format (you may need to regenerate your log file)

I downloaded cvs-exp from here, and I ran the command you stated above:

cvs-exp.pl -notree > logfile

Here's a sample of the logfile I get:

(date: 2008-09-12 08:37:50 -0500;  author: monkeyman;  state: Exp;  lines: +0 -0;  commitid: 123348ca70ae45
  | /cvsroot/project/include/component/Attic/file1.php,v:1.1.1.1,
  | /cvsroot/project/include/component/bin/file2,v:1.1.1.1,
  | /cvsroot/project/include/component/bin/file3,v:1.1.1.1,
  | /cvsroot/project/include/component/bin/file4.php,v:1.1.1.1,
  | /cvsroot/project/include/component/bin/file5.php,v:1.1.1.1,
  | /cvsroot/project/include/component/classes/file6.php,v:1.1.1.1,
  | /cvsroot/project/include/component/classes/file7.php,v:1.1.1.1,
  | /cvsroot/project/include/component/classes/file8.php,v:1.1.1.1,
  | /cvsroot/project/include/component/classes/file9.php,v:1.1.1.1,
  | /cvsroot/project/include/component/file10.php,v:1.1.1.1,
  | /cvsroot/project/include/component/file11.php,v:1.1.1.1,
  | /cvsroot/project/include/component/file12.php,v:1.1.1.1
  `----------------------------------------

I'm using version 0.26 of gource and the cvs-exp.pl from this site. Any ideas?

Comment by alejandr...@gmail.com, Apr 20, 2010

This script almost consumed my whole system memory. Be careful when running against a very big and old repository.

Comment by project member acaudw...@gmail.com, Apr 21, 2010

chrelad: normally there's a line with a 6 digit 'changeset' number (eg 000000:) before each commit, which doesn't appear in your log for some reason. Feel free to raise a bug.

Comment by chrisduf...@gmail.com, Aug 9, 2010

I can't seem to get CVS logs converted with cvs-exp.pl to work. I've tried maximzhao change to the script and dos2unix on the output, but still get the following..

gource: unsupported log format (you may need to regenerate your log file) Try 'gource --help' for more information.

Exmaple file with private stuff removed:

000000:
(date: 2005/10/12 15:01:47;  author: XXXXX\uXXXX1;  state: Exp;  kopt: kv;  commitid: 92c434d255a2439;  filename: XXXXXX.pl;)
  | /PATH_TO_FILES/XXXXXXX.pl,v:1.1,
  | /PATH_TO_FILES/YYYYYYY.pl,v:1.1,
  | /PATH_TO_FILES/ZZZZZZZ.pl,v:1.1
  `----------------------------------------

Comment 1

==============================================================================

000001:
(date: 2005/10/13 14:28:22;  author: XXXXX\pXXXs1;  state: Exp;  lines: +14 -5;  kopt: kv;  commitid: a34434e6f0558c7;  filename: YYYYYY.pl;)
  | /PATH_TO_FILES/YYYYYY.pl,v:1.2
  `----------------------------------------

Comment 2

==============================================================================

000002:
(date: 2005/10/13 15:23:07;  author: XXXXX\pXXXs1;  state: Exp;  lines: +18 -3;  kopt: kv;  commitid: d7c434e7bda02af;  filename: ZZZZZZ.pl;)
  | /PATH_TO_FILES/ZZZZZZ.pl,v:1.2
  `----------------------------------------

Comment 3

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Comment by project member acaudw...@gmail.com, Aug 12, 2010

Hi Chris.

There seem to be a couple problems. The backslash in the 'author:' names (though possibly that is just an artifact of pasting it here) and the lack of a 'lines: +N -N' entry on your first commit, which Gource assumes is there, though in fact doesn't do anything with it so I can probably just remove that check in the next version.

Cheers

Andrew

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