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NAME

       cvsutils - CVS utilities for use in working directories

SYNOPSIS

       cvsu [options]
       cvsco  [ options ]
       cvsdiscard  [ options ]
       cvspurge  [ options ]
       cvstrim  [ options ]
       cvschroot  [ options ]
       cvsdo  [ options ]

DESCRIPTION

       The  idea  of  cvsutils  is to facilitate working with the files in the
       working  directory  of  a  developer  using  CVS  (Concurrent  Versions
       System).

       From  the  point  of  view  of CVS, working directories have low value,
       since they can easily be recreated  using  the  cvs  checkout  command.
       Also  the  cvs  update  command will show the status of the files, i.e.
       whether they have been modified, added or removed.

       CVS in it’s current state is a client-server system that does  most  of
       its  work  on the server side. CVS provides only few (if any) means for
       managing the working directory without communicating with the server.

       There are, however, several reasons why such means are necessary:

       *      There is enough information on the client side  to  create  fast
              tools  for  sorting  and  purging  the working directory without
              contacting the CVS server.

       *      Checking out a big module over a slow line  can  take  too  much
              time.

       *      There should be support for disconnected operations.

       *      CVS  poses  certain unnecessary restrictions on read-only users,
              e.g.  cvs add command doesn’t work for them.

CVSU

       cvsu is "cvs update offline". It lists the files found in  the  current
       directory (or in the directories which you specify). Following is taken
       into account:

       *      Attributes of the file.

       *      Information about the file in CVS/Entries.

       *      Timestamp of the  file  compared  to  the  timestamp  stored  in
              CVS/Entries.

       Run  cvsu --help to see supported command line options. The options can
       be abbreviated.  This functionality is provided by Perl, and  can  vary
       from one machine to another.

CVSCO

       cvsco  is  a  "cruel  checkout".  In other words, it removes results of
       compilation and discards local changes. It deletes all the files except
       listed  unmodified  ones  and  checks  out everything which seems to be
       missing.  Please note, that cvsco doesn’t update  files  which  haven’t
       been modified locally. It only reloads missing files and files which it
       erases.

CVSDISCARD

       cvsdiscard is "discard my changes". In other words, it  discards  local
       changes  but  keeps results of compilation. It works like cvsco, but it
       only deletes files which are likely to cause merge conflicts.

CVSPURGE

       cvspurge leaves all files known to CVS, but removes the  rest.   Unlike
       cvsco,  it  doesn’t  remove  local changes.  It is useful to test local
       changes in the otherwise clean source tree.

CVSTRIM

       cvstrim removes files and directories unknown to CVS. Files  listed  in
       .cvsignore  are  not  removed. The idea is to remove the files that are
       not resulted from the normal build process -  backups,  coredumps  etc.
       cvstrim relies on .cvsignore files being correct. Note that the backups
       for modified files are removed.

CVSCHROOT

       cvschroot makes it possible to change CVS/Root in all subdirectories to
       the  given  value.  Currently  the  only  argument  accepted is the new
       CVSROOT value.  Old-style CVS/Repository files that  contain  the  full
       path  to  the  repository  are updated to reflect the change. New-style
       CVS/Repository don’t need to be changed. If  the  environment  variable
       CVSROOT  is  defined,  it  overrides the contents of CVS/Root. In other
       words, it is treated as the old CVS root.

CVSDO

       cvsdo simulates some of the CVS commands  (currently  add,  remove  and
       diff)  without  any access to the CVS server. Using cvsdo add and cvsdo
       remove allows you to create diffs with cvs diff -N, and all removed and
       added  files  will appear in the diff correctly, as if you had used cvs
       add and cvs remove respectively.

       cvsdo diff tries to locate the backup copies of the modified files.  If
       they  can  be  found,  they are compared with the current version using
       diff.  Only those backup copies are used  that  have  the  modification
       date equal the date listed in CVS/Entries for the modified file.  cvsdo
       diff patches the diff output to  make  it  more  robust  to  apply.  An
       exception  is made for files named "ChangeLog" - in this case diff will
       be instructed to omit all context lines,  so  that  the  patch  can  be
       applied  even if other changes have been written to the ChangeLog. Also
       the added files are handled properly. The header of the diff output  is
       patched in such way that at least GNU patch will create a new file when
       the resulting patch is applied and remove that file when the  patch  is
       reverted.

LICENCE

       cvsutils is covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL).

SEE ALSO

       cvs(1), cvs2cl(1).

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page was written by Uwe Hermann <uwe@debian.org>, for the
       Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

                               February 27, 2002