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. > [adminu...@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. > [adminu...@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
