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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc sysconfig 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 14 Sep 1995 18:47:45 PDT."
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 21:32:19 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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>    Well, then the behavior isn't consistent. Instead of doing the update,
> instead do the following:
> 
> vi pstat.c
> (and make some stupid but identifiable change)
> cvs diff -c -rHEAD pstat.c
> 
>    The differences you see will be relative to the head of the RELENG_2_1_0
> branch, NOT the head of the "main" branch.

Ah, but I believe that's because `cvs diff' has long been broken.

Try this, for an example:

	cvs co foo
	cd foo
	cvs diff -rRELENG_2_1_0 -rHEAD

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.

						Jordan