As per your previous defect, the issue is being caused by CVS printing progress commands to System.err, and info commands to System.out. -Q/-q only affects System.out, we'd have to catch System.err and filter it if we wanted to restrict the output, but then we have to be careful that we're not hiding any error messages. This would be covered by the current 'Show All CVS Output' checkbox, but isn't something that can be modified by changing the CVS command we run.

Hi again,

I get more than 1.8k lines of output like the following

Started by user anonymous
Building in workspace C:\Program Files\Jenkins\jobs\MV_Autobuild\workspace
cvs checkout -P -r TEST_BRANCH_VS2008_MV_BRANCH -d MediaViewer NCR/ImageMark/MediaViewer
cvs checkout: Updating MediaViewer
cvs checkout: Updating MediaViewer/Make
cvs checkout: Updating MediaViewer/ant_scripts
cvs checkout: Updating MediaViewer/src
cvs checkout: Updating MediaViewer/src/ConfigUpdator
cvs checkout: Updating MediaViewer/src/Fleet
cvs checkout: Updating MediaViewer/src/Fleet/Shared
cvs checkout: Updating MediaViewer/src/Fleet/mvimpflt
cvs checkout: Updating MediaViewer/src/MVDbCons

Is the -q flag enabled by default?
If yes than should i be getting this much of output?

How can i check if the command has -q or -Q enabled?

Thanks & Regards

Deepak

The -q option is set if you don't have the 'Show All CVS Output' option set on the Job Config Screen.

The "cvs checkout: Updating MediaViewer/src/MVDbCons" lines are what I'm referring to with my comment on CVS sending status to error output. This is not filtered by flags on the CVS command so no config is going to change this. We can't just ignore the error output since it may show failure messages but I am looking at how we can send it to a log (rather than the build console) to limit the number of lines during each build.

Thanks a lot Michael, it cleared my misunderstanding about the output that i was seeing.
And all the best for the logging improvement