CVS: show files that are locally changed

Question

Is there any simple way to show only the files in my repository that have been locally added, removed, or modified? I know that I can type "cvs stat" and look through the list of files, but that is tedious and error-prone. I am wondering if there is an easier way. I am using CVS 1.11.17, in case that matters.

Nuremberg

Answer 1

A 'dummy' update will give you this information.

cvs -qn update

A short description of the used options:

-q      Cause CVS to be somewhat quiet.
-n      Do not execute anything that will change the disk.

Smitherman

why not use diff ? – Burl

Answer 2

You can get a short listing of differences using the cvs diff command:

cvs -q diff --brief

Ticktack

Answer 3

Pipe it to grep!

cvs -Q status | grep -i locally

Gummous

I tried that, and I didn't really like it. I would like to see the path for the changed files, and not just the filenames. I tried cvs stat 2>/dev/null |grep Local -B1 -A4 |grep -vE "^$" and it was a little better, but kind of messy and quirky. – Nuremberg

Answer 4

Here is what I use:

cvs -Q status | grep -A 4 Locally | egrep -v '^\-\-|^   Working|^   Commit|^$' | awk '{print $2 " " $4}' | sed -e 's/\<Locally\>//;s/revision: \CVS-REPOSITORY-PATH/\t\t/'

Output:

pin_stages.ref 
            tests/unit/ccsn/pin_stages/pin_stages.ref,v
pin_stages_func.ref 
            tests/unit/ccsn/pin_stages_func/pin_stages_func.ref,v

Vonnievonny

Answer 5

Here is nmake-perl script list modified files, it is based on aforesaid cvs update -qn:

DIRS=\
  c:\project1\
  c:\project2

all: $(DIRS)
  !cd $? & cvs -qn update | perl -ne "s!\/!\\!g;print '$?\\'.qq($$1) if /^M (.*)/s;"

Curry

Answer 6

Do a CVS Update Files prepended with M are modified files.

Example:

CVS Update
cvsntsrv server: Updating dat/idv
M dat/idv/conduct.idv  = Modified
...

Pixie

Answer 7

As an alternative to commonly mentioned cvs update -qn, you can go for cvs release command. But this one is interactive and asks for confirmation at the end of the output (so you just need to abort it!). Normal output:

> cvs release .
...
U some/updated/file
M some/modified/file
...
You have [1] altered files in this repository.
Are you sure you want to release directory `.': n
** `release' aborted by user choice.
>

After question Are you sure you want to release directory '.': you put something different than y or Y.

Muscadine

Answer 8

you can use following command to get the list of files you modified locally

cvs -qn update | grep "M " | awk '{print $2}'

Leader