Re: Annoying "cvs commit: Examining ."

Jirong Hu wrote:
> Annoying "cvs commit: Examining ."
> This line makes me confused. What does it mean?

It is a status message describing that the command is recursively
examining the '.' directory.  The '.' directory is the current
directory and on Unix filesystems is a literal "." entry in the
current directory.  This is the default if none is supplied.

> In the following case, I run "cvs commit", then run it again. It
> gives this message but no result.

The second run has nothing to do and so doesn't print anything.

> [adminuser@localhost project1]$ cvs commit
> cvs commit: Examining .

Looking at the current directory which is the literal '.' entry.

> /cvs/projects/project1/v2_fix,v  <--  v2_fix
> new revision: 1.2; previous revision: 1.1

v2_fix is modified and so it is commited.

> [adminuser@localhost project1]$ cvs commit
> cvs commit: Examining .

Nothing to do since v2_fix is up to date.  So no action was echo printed.

If you desire cvs to be more quiet about these status messages then
you may specify the -q option.

  cvs -q commit

Often used options may be specified on a in your ~/.cvsrc file.

Bob