3.5. Checking the Status of Files

If you've made several changes to your local copy of phpdoc and would like to see what files have been modified, you can ask cvs what the current status of the file or files is.

To see the status of all files in the current directory, issue the following command:

$ cvs status -l

This will usually generate a huge list, but you can narrow down the status information by supplying cvs specific filenames to check the status of:

$ cvs status file1 [file2]

Example 3-1. cvs status example $ cvs status -l phpdoc/howto/howto.xml =================================================================== File: howto.xml Status: Locally Modified Working revision: 1.6 Repository revision: 1.6 /repository/phpdoc/howto/howto.xml,v Sticky Tag: (none) Sticky Date: (none) Sticky Options: (none)