cvs - Getting list of files changed in the current tree

June 23rd, 2008 by Shiva | Filed under Development, Tips & Tricks.

The simple way to retreive the list of changed files would be to update the tree, which would then list the files updated.

#cvs update . > filelist.dat

The problem with this, is that if there have been changes to other files after your last update, you will have to manually glean the files that you have changed. I tend face this, particularly during the last couple of weeks before a release, since you don’t want to risk updating your tree everyday, but still have to make 2/3 checkins. I did some googling today, and found how to find the list of files changed without updating your tree.

#cvs -n update . > filelist.dat

Thanks Jonnay for this. I should used man before I googled, but hey, I’m lazy today