Question

Is it possible? Run a cvs diff in terminal at the project root that outputs only modified files (like local files that aren’t in source control and local modified files – mainly what I did to my project).

I’m running cvs diff --brief but I still have too many results since my project is large, and with a lot of subdirectories – it shows the whole hierarchy and I just want to know which files are different from HEAD revision. I would like it to output one line per file – I’m going to merge using VimDiff.

I’m using Linux btw.

Answer 1

cvs diff only reports files that have changes by default, and you can turn off the noise about directories with the -q option to cvs (i.e., cvs -q diff; it works for all subcommands). If --brief is still producing too much output, you’ve probably just let your sandbox drift too far! (Dump to a file and stick it in an editor. Or pipe to a paging utility that can go backwards, like less.)