Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 17:43:08 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> Subject: Re: CVS diff question... Message-ID: <XFMail.990420174308.jobaldwi@vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904201415190.1514-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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On 20-Apr-99 Doug White wrote: > 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 That uses yesterday's GENERIC from -current and compares it against today's RELENG_3 GENERIC. I need to be able to compare yesterday's GENERIC from RELENG_3 against today's GENERIC from RELENG_3, and there doesn't seem to be a way to tell cvs diff to use "yesterday's GENERIC from RELENG_3". Thanks for your reply, though. > Or whatever. > > Doug White > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org --- John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://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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