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CVSDELTA(1)			cvsdelta 1.7.0			   CVSDELTA(1)

NAME
       cvsdelta	 -  Manage and summarize the differences between a CVS project
       and local files.

SYNOPSIS
       cvsdelta	[options] [file	...]

DESCRIPTION
       Manages and summarizes the differences between a	CVS project and	 local
       files,  showing	the  changes of	the files themselves and of their con-
       tents. Added, changed, and deleted files	are denoted with `+', `*', and
       `-' respectively. The number of lines are displayed.

OPTIONS
       -a, --adds
	   Display the files that were added. This is done by default.

       -A, --no-adds
	   Do not display the files that were added. The default  is  to  show
	   the added files.

       --banner, --no-banner
	   Whether to show the banner, i.e., the header	and footer of the out-
	   put table. By default, the banner is	displayed.

       -c, --changes
	   Display the files that were changed.	This is	done by	default.

       -C, --no-changes, --nodiff
	   Do  not  compare files that exist locally and in CVS. This executes
	   significantly faster, and is	useful for when	one only wants to  add
	   and remove files, without getting the summary of the	changes. It is
	   also	 helpful  for  dealing with situations where CVS seems to hang
	   after producing diff	 output,  although  changing  the  compression
	   level can help with this. The default is to show the	changed	files.

       -d, --deletes
	   Display the files that were deleted.	This is	done by	default.

       -D, --no-deletes
	   Do  not display the files that were deleted.	The default is to show
	   the files that were deleted.

       -e, --execute
	   Execute the associated CVS commands ("add" and  "remove")  for  the
	   added and deleted files.

       -f DATE,	--from-date DATE
	   Compare  the	 files	to  their version as of	the given date,	rather
	   than	their current version in CVS. The date is expected  to	be  in
	   CVS format, for example, 2002/12/31.

       -F REVISION, --from-revision REVISION
	   Compare the files to	their version as of the	given revision,	rather
	   than	their current version in CVS.

       -h, --help
	   Display a help message.

       -i, --confirm
	   Interactively  confirm  deleted files with the user before removing
	   them	from CVS.  The default is simply to execute the	remove command
	   for relevant	files. This option is valid only  with	the  --execute
	   option.

       --progress, --no-progress
	   Whether  to	show the progress meter	as the program is working with
	   CVS.	By default, this is not	shown.

       -q, --quiet
	   Run with minimum output. In quiet mode, the progress	meter  is  not
	   displayed.

       -s, --skip-unknown-directories
	   Skip	 directories  that  are	not in CVS. The	default	behavior is to
	   process all subdirectories.

       -t DATE,	--to-date DATE
	   Compare the files to	their version as of  the  given	 date,	rather
	   than	 to the	local files. The date is expected to be	in CVS format,
	   for example,	2001/08/21.   This  option  is	valid  only  with  the
	   --from-date or --from-revision options.

       -T REVISION, --to-revision REVISION
	   Compare the files to	their version as of the	given revision,	rather
	   than	to the local files. This is valid only with the	--from-date or
	   --from-revision options.

       -v, --version
	   Display the version and exit.

       -V, --verbose
	   Run with maximum output, which is written to	standard error.

       -z [LEVEL], ---compression [LEVEL]
	   Set the compression to the given level for net traffic. This	can be
	   useful  if  the CVS server seems to hang. The default level is 3; 0
	   and 9 work well.

ARGUMENTS
       Arguments may be	either files or	directories.

       File
	   If a	file is	provided, it is	compared  against  the	equivalent  in
	   CVS,	if any.	The .cvsignore files are applied, so that although the
	   file	was explicitly provided, it may	be ignored.

       Directory
	   Directories	are  processed recursively for files that are not fil-
	   tered out by	.cvsignore files.

EXAMPLES
	   % cvsdelta

       Lists the changed files.

	   % cvsdelta --execute

       Lists the changed files,	and executes the  associated  add  and	remove
       commands.

	   % cvsdelta --compression 9 --execute	--confirm --no-changes

       Run  with the maximum compression level.	Add and	remove the appropriate
       files, but get confirmation from	the user before	removing any files. Do
       not compare files that exist both locally and in	CVS.

ENVIRONMENT
       $HOME/.cvsdeltarc, .../project/.cvsdeltarc
	   Resource files containing name/value	pairs, separated by either ':'
	   or '='. The valid fields of a .cvsdeltarc file are as follows, with
	   their default values:

	       quiet:			 false
	       verbose:			 false
	       execute:			 false
	       confirm:			 false
	       diff:			 true
	       compression:		 3
	       adds:			 true
	       changes:			 true
	       deletes:			 true
	       skip-unknown-directories: false
	       banner:			 true

	   "yes" and "on" are synonymnous with "true". "no" and	"off"  signify
	   "false".

	   The	values	in the project .cvsdeltarc file	will override those in
	   the user's .cvsdeltarc file.	The project .cvsdeltarc	is assumed  to
	   be at the topmost directory in the local file hierarchy.

       CVSDELTAOPTS
	   A string of whitespace-delimited options, the same as listed	above.
	   These values	override those of the resource files.

NOTES
       If a file exists	in the CVS project but not locally, it is assumed that
       the  file has been deleted, not that it may have	been recently added by
       another user. The --confirm option can be used to deal with this	situa-
       tion.

AUTHOR
       Jeff Pace <jpace@incava.org>

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (c) 2002, Jeff	Pace.

       All Rights Reserved. This module	is free	software. It may be used,  re-
       distributed  and/or  modified  under the	terms of the Lesser GNU	Public
       License.	See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html  for	more  informa-
       tion.

cvsdelta 1.7.0			  2004-04-08			   CVSDELTA(1)

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