Re: efficient way to determine diff between wc and a tag?

Chris Wein wrote:
> In migrating from CVS, we have some users who use a useful command to
> determine what files are different from the current wc and a tag. It is
> done with
>
> alias cvsr 'cvs -n update -r \!* |& grep
> "^[UAMCR]|abort|update.*nothing|pertinent|ignored"'
>
> used as:
>
> % cvsr TAGNAME
>
> Now we are creating tags in /tags whereas the working copy is presumably
> based on /trunk. Can anyone think of an efficient way to get the list
> of files or an output suitable for a Perl script?

Try something like

$ svn diff --old $TAGURL --new . --diff-cmd /usr/bin/true | awk
'/^Index:/ { print $2 }'

Note that the awk command won't work with files that have spaces in
their name. Fixing that is left as an exercise for the reader ;-)

-garrett

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Received on Wed Mar 9 19:23:18 2005