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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 tags, use the taginfo file (see taginfo).
To log checkouts, exports, and tags,
respectively, you can also use the
‘-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.