CVS questions: multi-file commits, and branch reminders

[Roy Smith]

Is there a way in CVS mode to commit multiple files at once?  The 
behavior I'm after is what you get from the command line when you type 
"cvs commit": all the files in the current directory are examined for 
diffs and all of them that have changed are committed at once, with a 
single log message.

The other nice thing about committing from the command line is the 
template log message includes the branch you're committing on.  This is 
a nice reminder that helps avoid ugly mistakes when you're working with 
several branches at once.  Is there a way to get emacs to do that?