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Tony Hoyle wrote:
> There is no 'diff -q' in CVS.
>
>
FYI - from the source:
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In the case of -z and -q, "cvs diff" did not accept them even back
when we called rcsdiff (at least, it hasn't accepted them
recently).
In comparing rcsdiff to the new CVS implementation, I noticed that
the following rcsdiff flags are not handled by CVS diff:
-y: perform diff even when the requested revisions are the
same revision number
-q: run quietly
-T: preserve modification time on the RCS file
-z: specify timezone for use in file labels
I think these are not really relevant. -y is undocumented even in
RCS 5.7, and seems like a minor change at best. According to RCS
documentation, -T only applies when a RCS file has been modified
because of lock changes; doesn't CVS sidestep RCS's entire lock
structure? -z seems to be unsupported by CVS diff, and has a
different meaning as a global option anyway. (Adding it could be
a feature, but if it is left out for now, it should not break
anything.) For the purposes of producing output, CVS diff appears
mostly to ignore -q. Maybe this should be fixed, but I think it's
a larger issue than the changes included here.
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Basically with -q the answer seems to be that there's no point because
it doesn't actually do anything. --brief works (and is AFAIK the same
option) although there's a comment that its output is 'silly' - make of
that what you will.
Tony