For getting check-in data about some file I use cvs log filename which prints long list of all revisions. Is threre a better way for getting only last check-in info (revision, data, user). I have seen cvs log options, the -r option want revision number. Is there a way of getting it without knowing the revision number?
There doesn't seem to be a way, with cvs log to request just the last revision to a file, according to this reference page.
cvs log -N excludes tag names, to shorten the output, and you could pipe it through head -20, for example, to reduce the volume of output:
cvs log -N filename | head -20
Depending in how clever you want to get - or how much time you want to spend on this - you could do better, by using the fact that cvs status gives you the current version number of a file, e.g.
cvs -Q status Readme.Overview.txt
===================================================================
File: Readme.Overview.txt Status: Up-to-date
Working revision: 1.7
Repository revision: 1.7 /cvsroot/tortoisecvs/TortoiseCVS/Readme.Overview.txt,v
So you could write a script that extracts the Working revision value from that output, and then passes it to cvs log -r.