Holger Abel's List: Searching CVS

It'd be cheaper to use an off-the-shelf application, rather than wasting time reinventing the wheel. FishEye (atlassian.com/software/fisheye) does this. – skaffman Mar 20 '10 at 12:25

When I was asked the question "Do we have a file called somefile.txt in the CVS repository?" or "Do we have a file containing sometext?" (since I had access to the underlying repository) I just ran find commands on the CVSROOT. When doing this, remember that CVS stores files using RCS so files are appended with ,v. So when looking for somefile.txt you have to look for a file called somefile.txt,v.