Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 14:17:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVS diff question... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904201415190.1514-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990419234218.jobaldwi@vt.edu>
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On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, John Baldwin wrote: > Is there any easy way to do a diff of a file from a certain date on a > branch other than HEAD? For example, after I update my sources from > my local repository, I would like to run 'cvs diff' against GENERIC > and LINT to see what changes were made since the last time I updated. > Thus, I want to be able to do "cvs diff -D<blah date> GENERIC" and > have it look up the revision of GENERIC on the RELENG_3 branch instead > of on the HEAD branch to compare to my local GENERIC file, which has a > sticky tag of RELENG_3. Is there any easy way to do this w/o having > to page through 'cvs log' to find the specific revision number on > RELENG_3 at that date and then use 'cvs diff' with that? Thanks. Just specify the target revision as the second argument. For your case: cvs diff -rRELENG_3 -dyesterday GENERIC Or whatever. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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