cvsstat is a Perl program which transforms the cvs status output to an ASCII table sorted after the status of files.

If you have used CVS, then you know that it is hard to get a good overview the CVS-status of the files in you directories. Any new files? Any files changes? Any files which other people have changed in the repository? cvsstat will help the programmer get the overview. The program can be used for any type of CVS archive, local as well as remote.

Note that the program requires fast access to the repository! If this is not the case, then consider the cvschk-program for fast off-line CVS status summary.