As Bob said, the "Examining" shows a directory which is being examined. Here, CVS is trying to tell you that the commit command is looking at every file in that directory. This is as opposed to what happens when you issue a "cvs commit" with only filenames (i.e. no directories/modules) as arguments. In the latter case, the commit will only affect the given files, and it won't scan entire directories.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bob Proulx Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 7:24 PM To: Jirong Hu Cc: [email protected] Subject: 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. > [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 ********************************************************** MLB.com: Where Baseball is Always On
