Re: Patch: Make cvs commit honor -q/-Q

[Derek R. Price]

Would anyone mind if I checked in a patch like this one on stable since 
it does make CVS's behavior match its documentation?  I'll probably 
expand the -q output a little bit, though I will likely keep it to one line.

Derek

M.E.O'Neill wrote:

> cvs commit/checkin doesn't honor -q or -Q, and is extraordinarily 
> chatty, which can be annoying in scripts that run cvs commit (with the 
> -m option for the log message).
>
> This goes against the documentation, which reads:
>
>      -Q   Causes the command to be really quiet; the command will
>           generate output only for serious problems.
>
>      -q   Causes the command to be somewhat quiet;  informational
>           messages,  such  as  reports  of recursion through sub-
>           directories, are suppressed.
>
> Redirecting stdout and stderr to /dev/null can serve as a bandaid, but 
> that throws out legitimate errors too.
>
> Enclosed is my patch to make it honor -q/-Q.  With -q, it now prints:
>
> Checking in foo.txt
> Checking in bar.txt
>
> and with -Q it prints nothing if there are no errors.
>
>     M.E.O.
>
> Enc.
>
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