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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                               
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