Is there a way to get a short CVS status from command line?

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Johannes Hoff picture Johannes Hoff · Oct 17, 2008 · Viewed 11.6k times · Source

When doing a cvs update, you get a nice summary of the state of the repository, for example:

M src/file1.txt
M src/file2.txt
C src/file3.txt
A src/file4.txt
? src/file5.txt

Is there a way to get this without actually updating? I know there is cvs status, but this is way to verbose:

===================================================================
File: file6.txt        Status: Up-to-date

Working revision:    1.2
Repository revision: 1.2     /var/cvs/cvsroot/file6.txt,v
Sticky Tag:          (none)
Sticky Date:         (none)
Sticky Options:      (none)

I could of course make a script to do the transformation from the latter to the former, but it seems a waste of time since cvs can obviously produce the former.

Answer

jmcnamara picture jmcnamara · Oct 17, 2008

You can use the -n flag to get the update output without actually updating the files. You can also add -q (quiet) to suppress any server messages.

cvs -q -n update

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