[NTLUG:Discuss] Off-Topic - CVS Query

[Stuart Johnston]

Fred James wrote:
> Stephen Davidson wrote:
> 
>> Greetings.
>>
>> Project I am on, looking to read some "metrics" from CVS for Quality
>> Analysis.
>>
>> Does anyone know of a good tool that would get the number of lines of
>> code change between 2 labels in CVS?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Steve
>>  
>>
> Stephen Davidson
> I found this under "CVS(1)" in the man(ual) pages.  Does that help?
> Regards
> Fred James
> 
> " diff  [-kl]  [rcsdiff_options]  [[-r  rev1  |  -D  date1] [-r rev2 | -D
>       date2]] [files...]

If you take the output from the cvs diff and pipe it to:

egrep '^>' | wc -l

you would get the number of lines that were changed or added.  However 
it wouldn't tell you about lines removed or if a line was changed 
multiple times between revisions.

-Stuart