cvs-status: Display a CVS checkout in svn status format

I'm quite easily distracted, so I often leave uncommitted changes hanging around in my CVS checkout. I needed a way to easily detect when I have done this so I can pick up where I left off or revert the changes.

However, CVS does not seem to have a nice compact command for displaying the status of files in a checkout like SVN or git do. cvs status is way too verbose, and the network latency makes it slow.

Portage has a nice little module called "cvstree" that it uses to parse the CVS/Entries files directly and generates a convenient data structure in memory.

So, I wrote a little wrapper that produces output in the style of the svn status command:

cvs-status

#!/usr/bin/env python

from __future__ import print_function
from portage import cvstree

myentries = cvstree.getentries(mydir=".", recursive=1)

mynew     = cvstree.findnew(entries=myentries, recursive=1)
mychanged = cvstree.findchanged(entries=myentries, recursive=1)
mymissing = cvstree.findmissing(entries=myentries, recursive=1)
myunadded = cvstree.findunadded(entries=myentries, recursive=1)
myremoved = cvstree.findremoved(entries=myentries, recursive=1)

for x in mynew:
        print('A      ', x)

for x in mychanged:
        print('M      ', x)

for x in mymissing:
        print('!      ', x)

for x in myunadded:
        print('?      ', x)

for x in myremoved:
        print('D      ', x)

This produces output like this:

floppym@naomi gentoo-x86 % cvs-status
!       net-p2p/freenet/files/freenet.old
?       .ebuild.x
?       metadata/herds.xml
?       profiles/use.local.desc

That first entry is actually a small bug in the cvstree module: it does not handle the case where an ignored file is actually under version control.

Maybe some of my fellow devs will find this useful.