David McArthur writes:
>
> Is there a way for cvs diff to report only names of changed files
> like diff -q ?
cvs diff --brief
``cvs diff -q'' used to mean what ``cvs -q diff'' means now -- when it
was changed, -q was not allowed as a diff option to avoid having a
previously-valid command still be valid but do something completely
different. It's been long enough since that transition that we could
probably put it back again now.
> I can't figure out what version of diff cvs is using or what options
> it can take.
It uses a built-in version of 2.7 (see diff/version.c in the sources).
Now that it does use a built-in version, the help should be complete;
alas, it is not. You can glean the allowable options from src/diff.c
(but you shouldn't have to).
-Larry Jones
He's just jealous because I accomplish so much more than he does. -- Calvin
