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From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.Freenix.FR>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc sysconfig
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 08:34:17 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: davidg@Root.COM, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com,
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In-Reply-To: <7735.811139539@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Sep 14, 95 09:32:19 pm
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It seems that Jordan K. Hubbard said:
> You'll see nothing.  According to the man page, you're *supposed* to
> be able to generate diffs against arbitrary tags, but it's certainly
> never worked that way for me.

I've tried  it  also. It doesn't work    especially if some   files you are
comparing with don't have the tag you specified with -r...  I don't know if
I'm clear but I know when I  tried to generate a  diff between -CURRENT and
2.0.5 it never generated diffs for the new files.
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT    -=- The daemon is FREE! -=-    roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net
 FreeBSD keltia.Freenix.FR 2.2-CURRENT #1: Sun Sep 10 18:50:19 MET DST 1995