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Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> One thing that I'm pretty sure has been brought up before would be
> that, for those of us who keep a local CVS repo mirror, it's easy and
> pretty cheap to check out even arbitrary revs to compare to what's
> currently there (and if you wanted to be REALLY overly-smart, you
> could even try automagically merging local changes ;)

etcmerge can already do this :)

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