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Date:      Thu, 18 Mar 2004 18:31:45 +0300 (MSK)
From:      Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: CVS question: diff between dates on a branch
Message-ID:  <20040318182420.N33678@woozle.rinet.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20040318133008.GD8605@ip.net.ua>
References:  <20040318134438.A28467@woozle.rinet.ru> <20040318133008.GD8605@ip.net.ua>

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On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:

RE> > maybe I'm stupid and blind ;-) but I still can't fugure out how can I ask CVS
RE> > to get diff between two states of a branch with known dates (such as today and
RE> > yesterday). All that I found was 'cvs get -jBRANCH:date1 -jBRACH:date2' but
RE> > this looks very sub-optimal. Any hints?
RE> >
RE> Surprisingly (it's undocumented) but the exact same synopsis seems
RE> to work here with "cvs diff":

RE> $ cvs di -jRELENG_4:2002/01/01 -jRELENG_4:2003/01/01 --brief Makefile.inc1

Wow, thanks a lot! Backporting stability patches from RELENG_4 to RELENG_4_X is
now much simpler! ;-)


Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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