cvs history

Gives you historical information on repository versus on individual files.

Common flags include -e (show everything) and -a (for all users). Example:

 $ cvs history -ea
O 2001-06-11 01:22 +0000 dyork hello =hello=          ~/*
M 2001-06-11 02:04 +0000 dyork 1.2         hello.py       hello == ~/hello
M 2001-06-11 02:05 +0000 dyork 1.3         hello.py       hello == ~/hello
U 2001-06-11 02:12 +0000 dyork 1.4         hello.py       hello == ~/hello
A 2001-06-11 02:18 +0000 dyork 1.1         Makefile       hello == ~/hello
U 2001-06-11 03:09 +0000 dyork 1.2         Makefile       hello == ~/hello
E 2001-06-11 03:17 +0000 dyork [Release-1-0] hello =/tmp/hello-1.0= ~/hello//tmp/hello-1.0
O 2001-06-11 02:08 +0000 fred  hello =hello=          ~/*
O 2001-06-11 02:10 +0000 fred  hello =hello=          ~/*
M 2001-06-11 02:12 +0000 fred  1.4         hello.py       hello == ~/hello
U 2001-06-11 02:21 +0000 fred  1.1         Makefile       hello == ~/hello
M 2001-06-11 02:49 +0000 fred  1.2         Makefile       hello == ~/hello
[dyork@burrito hello]$ 

Other common options include: