User-defined logging
====================

   You can customize CVS to log various kinds of actions, in whatever
manner you choose.  These mechanisms operate by executing a script at
various times.  The script might append a message to a file listing the
information and the programmer who created it, or send mail to a group
of developers, or, perhaps, post a message to a particular newsgroup.
To log commits, use the `loginfo' file (see loginfo.).  To log
commits, checkouts, exports, and tags, respectively, you can also use
the `-i', `-o', `-e', and `-t' options in the modules file.  For a more
flexible way of giving notifications to various users, which requires
less in the way of keeping centralized scripts up to date, use the `cvs
watch add' command (see Getting Notified.); this command is useful
even if you are not using `cvs watch on'.

   The `taginfo' file defines programs to execute when someone executes
a `tag' or `rtag' command.  The `taginfo' file has the standard form
for administrative files (see Administrative files.), where each
line is a regular expression followed by a command to execute.  The
arguments passed to the command are, in order, the TAGNAME, OPERATION
(`add' for `tag', `mov' for `tag -F', and `del' for `tag -d'),
REPOSITORY, and any remaining are pairs of FILENAME REVISION.  A
non-zero exit of the filter program will cause the tag to be aborted.