Machine-readable output

[David Evans]

Hi all.  Bug-cvs newbie here...

I've been trying to put together some scripts to run cvs commands, parse the
output, and produce various kinds of reports.  With "cvs status" I found this
wasn't too hard, but I found the output of "cvs history" was particularly hard
for a script to parse (well not disastrously so, but it's not especially
machine-friendly).

I put together a patch (attached) which adds a -M (machine-readable) switch to
"cvs history".  (I realise now that, if this is going to go anywhere, in fact it
would probably be better added as a global option to src/main.c).  This is more
a proof-of-concept patch than a real quality job  :-)

Anyway, comments please.  Is this likely to be useful to anyone?  Is this a
sensible output format? (it's simple, if nothing else).  Is there some sensible
existing alternative to all this which I'm missing?

Dave Evans
Power Internet

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