gerson23/pycvs

A python client for CVS repositories.

pycvs

A python client for CVS repositories.

Yeah, I know that CVS is a hundred years old, but sometimes you are stick to work with it. This utility is your best buddy to help you out! :)

Advantages

• No password prompting
• Beautiful output
• Recursive addition

Dependencies

It runs only on Python 3 and depends on some libraries (available at PyPI):

• pexpect>=4.1.0
• colorama>=0.3.7

Installation

Install from PyPI:

pip3 install pycvs

Supported commands

This contains the current supported commands:

Checkout a brand new repository or update an existing one:

% pycvs checkout <repo>
Checking out repository repo

385 files checked out
70 directories checked out

% pycvs update <repo>

Get current status of a repository:

% cd my_repo
% pycvs status
On branch HEAD
Untracked files:
 (use cvs add <file>... to add them for commit)

  	bla

Changes staged for commit:
 (use cvs commit... to check them in)

	./my_script.py

Add new files to repository. It works recursively:

% cd my_repo
% pycvs add foo/
Directory foo added
	staging foo/bla to commit
	staging foo/ble to commit

Diff the modified files from the server:

% pycvs diff [parameters]
(open a less windows with the differences in the unified syntax and colors)

Log the file history from the server:

% pycvs log [parameters]
(open a less windown with file's revisions, tags...)

pycvs's Issues

Add support on status command for "Needs Merge" status

There's one case that a modified file won't show up on pycvs status command because it needs merge. This should be also handled.

Create remove option

Though less often used, it is a nice addition to have a pycvs rm <file> command that removes the file and removes from cvs in just one command.

Add support on status command for "File had conflicts on merge" status

This status is returned by cvs status command when the file that had merge problem was fixed but not committed yet. So, this should be displayed durign pycvs status command as well.

It should specify that's a wrapper around cvs commandline

To avoid confusions if is a library or a wrapper, it should specify that this tools is a wrapper around the cvs command line that help to manage to work with cvs.

Add commit option

Commit isn't supported by pycvs yet. This could be added as well, but need more though on how to handle the commit message and how to display the new revision numbers.

Add support on status command for "Locally Removed" status

When removing files on cvs, their status is "Locally Removed" and it is not currently supported, so no files are shown on status command.

Error handling

A more robust error handling should be implemented for cases like:

• Wrong configured CVS password
• Conflict on files
• Server timeout

Support multiuser configuration

There should be possible to configure multiple users (maybe per CVSROOT).