CVS list of files only in working directories

Question

Is it possible to get a list of files that are in the working directory tree, but not in the current branch/tag? I currently diff the working copy with another directory updated to the same module and tag/branch but without the local non-repo files. It works, but doesn't honor the .cvsignore files. I figure there must be an option using a variation of 'cvs diff'.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

If your project has:

dir/a.txt       <--- In CVS
    b.txt       <--- In CVS
    c.txt       <--- In CVS
    newfile.txt <---- ***NOT IN CVS***

Then the following command will identify newfile.txt for you:

cvs -n update | egrep '^?'

Answer 2

don't you need to escape the question mark in the regular expression?

cvs -n update | egrep '^\?'