StatCVS

StatCVS is a tool which retrieves information from a CVS repository and then generates various tables and charts which describe the project development. Some of the project development that is described by the start CVS is; Timeline for the lines of code, Lines of code for each developer , Activity by Clock time , Authors Activity , Author activity per Module , Author Most Recent Commits with links to ViewVc, Stats per directory , File count , Average file size , Largest files.

Files with most revisions , Directory Sizes , Repository Tags Number of LOC per ver, Repository tree with file count and lines of code , LOC and Churn the evolution of LOC and the amount of change per day, Repo Map the dynamic hierarchical view of your repo for the last 30 days. The current version of StatCVS normally generates a static suite of HTML documents containing tables and chart images.

In order to have this tool, you need to download it fast then check out a working copy of your project t from CVS. CVS command line client(CVSnt and CVS for Unix for windows) is also very important. Typically, the command looks like this: CVS -d /CVS root check out module name. Create a CVS log file:CVS log > logfile.log.

Run StatCVS:java -jar /path/to/statcvs.jar /path/to/module/logfile.log /path/to/module. This particular type of command usually creates HTML reports in the current directory.Stat CVS also got the options for customizing the reports. Stat CVS users mailing list usually cater for the needs of those individuals who run into errors.