Re: CVS question

[Eric Siegerman]

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 09:03:36AM +0100, Gavin Whitelaw wrote:
> I have a requirement for my version control tool in that I want to be able
> to see both the number of new lines of code and the number of changed
> lines of code between two consecutive versions of a file so I can see 
> some indication of the amount of coding effort.
> 
> Does CVS support this?

You could always run "cvs diff", and pipe the output through a script
to total the "summary" lines:
        XaY,Z           Z-Y+1 lines added
        X,YdZ           Y-X+1 lines deleted
        X,YcZ,W         Hmmm, not sure; Y-X+1, or Z-W+1, or the maximum of
                        those, or the minimum?  Depends on your definition of
                        "change", I guess :-)

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