Re: How to get consistent output for: cvs -q -n up -d ?

[Daniel Yek]

Ted Stern wrote:
> On 24 Apr 2008 15:10:31 -0700, Daniel Yek wrote:
>   
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am having problem getting consistent output using a cvs command to
> > list on the module directories.
> >
> > cvs -d <whatever> co -l \.
> >
> > If I check out a module here, the output of the following command will
> > be different from if I don't check out any module here.
> >
> > cvs -q -n up -d 2>&1 | cut -f 5 -d' ' | sed "s/\`\|'//g" -
> >
> > This might be caused by the entries in CVS/Entries.Log file,  but I am
> > not sure.
> >
> > Is there a way to modify the cvs command above to consistently list
> > the module directories only (without second-level directories in the
> > output) in an existing source directory?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >     
>
>
> Hi Daniel,
>
> This seems a little dangerous.
>
> The usual way to get a Table Of Contents of your modules is to create
> it yourself using the modules file.
>
>      cvs -d <repos> checkout -d cvsmodules CVSROOT/modules
>
>      cd modules
>
>
> Add lines like this:
>
>    CVSROOT           CVSROOT # cvs administration stuff, not for regular users
>    cvsmodules        CVSROOT modules # *** to edit what you're looking at now!
>    module1           path/to/module1 # *** Nice descriptive comment
>
> Then when you do
>
>    cvs -d <repos> checkout -c
>
> you will get a listing that looks like this:
>
>
> CVSROOT      CVSROOT
>              # cvs administration stuff, not for regular users
> cvsmodules   CVSROOT modules
>              # *** to edit what you're looking at now!
> module1      path/to/module1
>              # *** Nice descriptive comment
>
>
> Is that more like what you want?
>   

Hi Ted,

No, not really. I am not trying to present a table of content to users, 
but I am trying to use the output of module names in a script.

Before checking out the modules themselves, this command:
cvs -q -n up -d 2>&1 | cut -f 5 -d' ' | sed "s/\`\|'//g"

would give me:
module0
module1
etc.

After checking out some modules, or change directory into an existing 
cvs "tree", *exactly the same* command for the same repository would 
give me this output:
module0/dir0
module0/dir1
module1/dira
module1/dirb
etc.

I want to get module names without second-level directory name consistently.

Thanks.

--
Daniel Yek.



> Ted
>