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Commands using cvs

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cvs -q diff --brief | grep file | cut -d/ -f3- | cut -d',' -f1
2012-03-07 12:08:21
User: chstr
Functions: cut cvs diff file grep
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List only locally modified files with CVS
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cvs up -pA main.cpp | sdiff -s - main.cpp
2011-12-14 04:51:40
User: kev
Functions: cvs sdiff
Tags: cvs
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cvs diff HEAD and current branch

you can't reliably use diff against -r HEAD to test whether a file matches the head of the trunk.

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cvs -Q status | perl -ne 'print if m/^File.+Status: (?!Up-to-date)/ .. m/^=/;'
2011-12-07 00:33:49
User: dexterp
Functions: cvs perl
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List only locally modified files with CVS

This will also print the path to file which is not included in the other examples.

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cvs checkout -l project/src/
2011-09-08 01:34:23
User: kev
Functions: cvs
Tags: cvs
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checkout directory and the files it contains, without any further subdirectories
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cvs up -r1.23 -p main.cpp | vim -
2011-05-27 04:01:38
User: kev
Functions: cvs vim
Tags: cvs
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read old reversion of file
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cvs up 2>&1 | grep --color 'U \|P \|A \|R \|M \|C \|? '
2010-06-30 11:43:06
User: RapazP
Functions: cvs grep
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List only locally modified files with CVS

Filter output with default cvs update status (not only modified files 'M')

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for dir in $(find -type d ! -name CVS); do for file in $(find $dir -maxdepth 1 -type f); do rm $file; cvs delete $file; done; done
2010-04-27 16:03:33
User: ubersoldat
Functions: cvs dir file find rm
Tags: bash cvs delete rm
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Recursively remove all files in a CVS directory

This will search all directories and ignore the CVS ones. Then it will search all files in the resulting directories and act on them.

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cvs -n update 2>null | grep -i "M " | sed s/"M "//
2009-10-06 16:03:02
User: noisy
Functions: cvs grep sed
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List only locally modified files with CVS
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cvs update -C
2009-07-21 08:40:39
User: pavanlimo
Functions: cvs
Tags: cvs
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Override and update your locally modified files through cvs..
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cvs -Q status | grep -i locally
2009-02-05 21:19:25
User: scw
Functions: cvs grep
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List only locally modified files with CVS
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