during update user is informed about actually
updated/merged files/dirs in CVS output TAB.

From performance reason, those info is "temporary"
and limited to the sertain amount of lines of
outputs...

IMHO, during proces of update, no one just sit and
watch it and study the output and wait if just
some files was updated or not or in conflict, etc.


Nice will be to have a summarized output for such 
thing like to have 3/4 or more lines of output
looking like this:
   28 files have been updated
   35 files are in conflict
   13 files was merged
   ----------------------------
   58 files was untached
   134 files proceeded at all

and numbers will be links (like if you click on
compilation error) to the list of
updated/merged/conflicted/etc files

or there can be buttons, or what ever....

and from the list files hould be easily opened in
editor too (by doubleclick on it,etc.)