Is there a way to get a short CVS status from command line?
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03-07-2019 - |
Question
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.
Solution
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
OTHER TIPS
@jmcnamara: Good tip!
And all this time I've been using this bash script:
cvs -q status "$@" | grep '^[?F]' | grep -v 'Up-to-date'
I have some aliases, that may be useful for somebody:
alias cvsstatus_command='cvs -q status | grep "^[?F]" | grep -v "Up-to-date" | \
grep -v "\.so" | grep -v "\.[c]*project"'
alias cvsstatus_color='nawk '"'"'BEGIN \
{ \
arr["Needs Merge"] = "0;31"; \
arr["Needs Patch"] = "1;31"; \
arr["conflicts"] = "1;33"; \
arr["Locally Modified"] = "0;33"; \
arr["Locally Added"] = "0;32" \
} \
{ \
l = $0; \
for (pattern in arr) { \
gsub(".*" pattern ".*", "\033[" arr[pattern] "m&\033[0m", l); \
} \
print l; \
}'"'"
alias cvsstatus='cvsstatus_command | cvsstatus_color'
This will display only file names and their status, ignore all up-to-date files, remove all eclipse project files and shared objects and will also print the lines in different colors, depending on the status (for example, I have orange for locally modified; red for files, needing merge; green for locally added, etc)
If you're using CVSNT you can also just do cvs status -q
which will also produce much briefer output than the regular status command (also just one line per file). With more recent versions you can even do cvs status -qq
which will skip the up-to-date files.