---
name: "statcvs"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "statcvs"
version: "1:0.7.0.dfsg-11"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/statcvs"
---

# statcvs(1)

CVS Repository statistic analysis tool, written in Java

## NAME

statcvs - CVS Repository statistic analysis tool, written in Java

## SYNOPSIS

**cvs log \>** *cvs-logfile.log*

**statcvs** *\[ options \]* *path/to/cvs-logfile.log* *path/to/checkout*\

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **statcvs** command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

**statcvs** is a program that retrieves information from a CVS repository and generates various tables and charts describing the project development, e.g. timeline for the lines of code, contribution of each developer etc.\
 The current version of StatCvs generates a static suite of HTML documents containing tables and chart images. StatCvs is opens source software, released under the terms oft the LGPL.\
 StatCvs uses JFreeChart to generate charts.

- *cvs-logfile.log*

  path to the cvs logfile of the module. **Important note:** statcvs will fail if the log file was not produced with  **cvs** from within the checkout. It however does not matter if the file is not in the directory you're running  **statcvs** from.

- *path/to/checkout*

  path to the directory of the checked out module

## OPTIONS

These programs follow the usual command line syntax, with long options starting with one dashe ("-"). A list of options is included below. For a complete description, run the program without parameters

- **-version**

  print the version information and exit

- **-output-dir \<dir\>**

  directory where HTML suite will be saved

- **-include \<pattern\>**

  include only files matching pattern, e.g. \*\*/\*.c;\*\*/\*.h

- **-exclude \<pattern\>**

  exclude matching files, e.g. tests/\*\*;docs/\*\*

- **-title \<title\>**

  Project title to be used in reports

- **-viewcvs \<url\>**

  integrate with ViewCVS installation at \<url\>

- **-verbose**

  print extra progress information

## JAVA-WRAPPERS NOTE

This program is a shell script wrapper based on [**java-wrappers**(7)](/java-wrappers/7.md). You therefore benefit from several features; please see the  [**java-wrappers**(7)](/java-wrappers/7.md) manual page.

## SEE ALSO

[**cvs**(1)](/cvs/1.md) and  [**java-wrappers**(7)](/java-wrappers/7.md)

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Christian Bayle \<bayle@debian.org\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).