Question

I just need to get a list of the most recent changes from CVS and parse them.

Example: The CVS user “Lollerskates” checked in a file with spaces. But spaces are the delimiter! And then “skates” checked in a file with a space in a folder name.

% cvs history -c -a -D 2011-03-14
A 2011-03-15 00:17 +0000 jschmoe      1.1   CoolCode.java                  Awesome/Source/Java/src/com/widgets/foo/ambiguous/abstraction   == <remote>
M 2011-03-15 00:17 +0000 sumbody      1.2   MoreCoolCode.java              Awesome/Source/Java/src/com/widgets/foo/ambiguous/abstraction   == <remote>
A 2011-03-15 00:17 +0000 lollerskates 1.123 This File Name Has Spaces.html Awesome/Source/Java/src/com/widgets/foo/ambiguous/abstraction   == <remote>
A 2011-03-15 00:17 +0000 jschmoe      1.1   MyAwesomeProject.java          Awesome/Source/Java/src/com/widgets/foo/ambiguous/abstraction   == <remote>
M 2011-03-15 00:17 +0000 skates       1.5   BlahBlah.java                  Awesome/Source/Java/src/com/widgets/foo/content/block type/cart == <remote>

What is a reliable way to parse this?

Alternatively, is there a different CVS command with more easily parsable results?

Answer 1

This regex captures all of these:

\w \d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2} \d{2}:\d{2} \+\d{4} (\w+)\s+(\d+.\d+)\s+([\w\s]+\.\w+)\s+([\w\s/]+)== \<remote\>

The user is in group #1, filename in group #3 and path in group #4.