Re: pcl-cvs: suppress empty dirs?

[Robin Dunn]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > feature' that is bugging me.  When I do a cvs-examine in pcl-cvs then any
> > old empty directories still in the repository are showing up with "new-dir
> > Need-Update" which is real annoying.
>
> Yes, it's annoying, but it can be very useful if it really means what
> it says.  

We've got about 10 years or so of revisions in the CVS repository of a 
very active project and have ended up with a lot of directories that are 
now empty (no current revisions, just stuff in the Attic) and so with 
this new 'feature' of pcl-cvs we can end up with 150+ lines of garbage 
in the buffer hiding the few lines that really mean something.  If the 
cvs output says that it is "ignored" shouldn't pcl-cvs ignore it too?

> To get rid of the warning, add the entry to the .cvsignore file
> (with a final /).

The problem with this is that I also use CVS repositories that I don't 
have write access too, so instead of the new-dir lines I'll end up with 
lines telling me that .cvsignore has been updated.

I've written a small script to wrap cvs such that if "update" is on the 
command line it pipes cvs's output through grep to remove the lines that 
are confusing pcl-cvs.  It works fine on Linux and OS X, but so far I 
can't seem to get the pcl-cvs on Windows to execute anything but an .exe 
file...


#!/bin/bash

CVS=/usr/bin/cvs
TRIM=no

for a in "$@"; do
    if [ "$a" == "update" ]; then
        TRIM=yes
    fi
done

if [ "$TRIM" == "yes" ]; then
    $CVS "$@" 2>&1 | grep -ve "New directory.*ignored"
else
    $CVS "$@"
fi