How to detect new CVS dirs

[Peter Toft]

Hi all 

I have a small brain-teaser for the CVS-gurus.... 

Assume
that I "pto" have a CVS module checked out, and the user "donald" have
the same module checked out - 

both on HEAD version. Then "donald" adds
two dirs (Donald/ + Scrooge/) and one file (Scrooge/McDuck) 

 mkdir
Donald 

 mkdir Scrooge 

 echo "money" > Scrooge/McDuck 

 cvs add
Donald Scrooge 

 cvs commit Donald Scrooge 

 cvs add Scrooge/McDuck 


cvs commit -m "Money makes the world go around" Scrooge/McDuck 

My
question to you is how can "pto" detect what "donald" did - WITHOUT
changing the files locally. 

Part of the question is solved by running


 cvs -q -n update -AdP 

However now it gets a bit more blurry.... 

I
will see the directories "Donald" and "Scrooge" in my stderr output 


cvs update: New directory `Donald' -- ignored 

 cvs update: New
directory `Scrooge' -- ignored 

well - I kinda dislike this, since a
real "cvs update -AdP will prune the empty "Donald" away i.e. I cannot
see  

why "cvs -q -n update -AdP" should show this. Comments on this?


The other issue is that I cannot see the file "Scrooge/McDuck" with my
"cvs -q -n update -AdP". 

Clues to get that information - again without
actually modifying the local files of me? Comments? 

I can solve this
by first doing an actual update of the two dirs, and see what I get -
and then remove the  

two dirs, but I would like to solve this with
that strategy. 

Best 

Peter Toft 

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Peter Toft,
PhD
http://petertoft.dk