Way to find the list of files added freshly/newly to a cvs repository

I suppose this command would help:

cvs diff -N -c -r RELEASE_1_0 -r RELEASE_1_1 > diffs

where RELEASE_1_0 and RELEASE_1_1 are the names of your tags.

You can find a little more information on cvs diff command here

plus it should be fairly simple to create a script to make report more suitbable for your needs, ex: number of files changed, created deleted etc. As far as I know the most common cvs GUI tools (wincvs and tortoise) do not provide something like this out of the box.

Hope it helps ;)

Using the cvs history command you can get a lot of information, you can also limit the information you get if you know all the little arguments.

cvs history -a -x A

Will get you all the history for added files (-a for all users, -x A gives you information on only added files), you can limit that more if you add the -w flag for the local directory. It's hard to get the "freshly" requirement done, since there is no specific option for that. If you have the module tagged it's much easer to find the history back to the tag, just use the -t TAGNAME argument and you'll have all added files since that tag:

cvs history -a -x A -t TAGNAME

or you could get all the added files since a date by using the -D DATE argument instead:

cvs history -a -x A -D DATE

There is a bunch of other options too, look around in the full documentation if you need any more: history command documentation