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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
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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 12:52:15 -0700 (PDT)
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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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> 
> >    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.

Try his instead:  (Much faster, saves the cvs co op :-))

cvs rdiff -rRELENG_2_1_0 -rHEAD foo


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