RE: lines modified in newly-added files

[Jim.Hyslop]

Neil Conway wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 12:41 +1100, Neil Conway wrote:
> > I would like to see "lines: +3 0" associated with revision 
> 1.1. It is
> > possible to get the number of lines modified via a kludge 
> (fetch the 1.1
> > revision of the file and manually count the number of lines 
> in it), but
> > I think it would be reasonable for CVS to provide this information
> > itself.
> 
> Any comments on this?
Well, I would have no objections to this behaviour. 

> I realize there may be backward compatibility concerns; this would
> naturally only be in the feature release series.
Maybe it could be turned on using a command-line option, e.g.:

cvs commit -a

-a Display the number of lines added/removed for new or deleted files.


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Jim Hyslop
Senior Software Designer
Leitch Technology International Inc. ( http://www.leitch.com )
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