What?

This filters cvs output and colorizes it. The originial intention was to make it very obvious when you had stuff like merge conflicts, or added but uncommitted files.

In addition, to colorizing, color_cvs tacks on a nice little summary of the files that were changed at the end of the update, so theirs no need to scroll though hundreds of lines of back scroll to see if the Changelog got updated.

It also now includes some support for colorizing of diff output.

How?

It's perl.

Needs the Term::ANSIColor module available from: http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Term/

And also the Term::Size module from the same place

To use:

	    color_cvs -z3 update -Pd 
            

or whatever normal cvs args you use.

Or for diff mode:

	    color_cvs diff -u foobar.c
	    

At the moment, it only does useful things for update and diff.

Screenshots?

Uh, well... its not a gui program.

But here is an example output capture from a session updating gnome-core. Just cat this to a color term. color_cvs1.out

That particular example is pretty typical.

Note that it also highlights merge conflicts and other cases.

Who?

Adrian Likins (adrian@gimp.org or alikins@redhat.com) diff support by peter@pezaris.com

Where?

Grab it from color_cvs under 1k

When?

Version .05 released Dec 18 2003

Version .04 released Jan 25 1999