It is a tool that lets you perform queries on the contents of a CVS archive; you can: get a list of checkins, see what checkins have been made by a given person, or on a given CVS branch, or in a particular time period. It also includes tools for looking at checkin logs (and comments); doing diffs between various versions of a file; and finding out which person is responsible for changing a particular line of code ("cvsblame").

main Bonsai Query page

SeaMonkey Tree control page

Here are some example queries that will give you a taste of what Bonsai is capable of:

Today's checkins to the Mozilla Source Mainline Module=SeaMonkeyAll Branch=HEAD
Checkins to any branch of XFE by Ramiro between 26-Feb-1998 and 12-May-1998
Differences between revisions 3.1 and 3.3 of the file mozilla/cmd/xfe/forms.c

That's a small sample, but it should be enough to get you started. Play around with the various options on the main Bonsai Query page. If you're updating our cvs tree you'll need to learn about hacking with bonsai.

Bonsai Source Code:

The source code to the Bonsai tool itself is also available. You check it out from our CVS server by doing

    cvs checkout mozilla/webtools/bonsai

Please see our CVS page for information on using our CVS server. (The Tinderbox and Bonsai sources are currently only available via CVS.)

Note: the source code to Bonsai is not pretty. It won't be easy to get it working at your site. See the README file within the Bonsai sources for more extensive disclaimers and apologies.