Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:51:19 +0100 From: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Cc: jeremie@le-hen.org Subject: Diffing RELENG_6 between two dates from cvs Message-ID: <20070115235119.GE4259@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>
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Hi list,
(Please Cc: my in your replies.)
I am looking for a way to achieve what I would intuitively write:
cvs diff -r RELENG_6 -D <date1> -D <date2>
Some people would point me to the info-cvs mailing-list for this
question doesn't seem to be related to FreeBSD. Nonetheless FreeBSD 6
has cvs 1.11.17-FreeBSD and I am pretty sure that cvs guys would to me
to use a newer version of cvs: this is indeed a FAQ [1]. Starting at
version 1.12.12, cvs can handle the following syntax:
cvs diff -r <tag>:<date> -r <tag>:<date>
[1] http://ximbiot.com/cvs/wiki/index.php?title=CVS_FAQ#How_do_I_get_a_date_based_diff_on_a_branch.3F
The proposed workaround works but it implies to have write access to
the repository. Moreover tagging the whole src/ tree is a bit overkill
for such a task.
I've read somewhere it is possible to use "cvs diff -j <date>:<tag>",
but I wasn't able to confirm this.
Any clue or pointers are welcome.
Thank you.
Best regards,
PS: In the meantime, one can use "cvs update -r <branch> -D <date>" but
"cvs status" reveals only a sticky tag. The sticky date is lost,
probably because the CVS/Entries file can handle either flag "T<tag>"
or "D<date>" and not both together. Does any one know how to
workaround this, or if it has been addressed in later version of cvs ?
--
Jeremie Le Hen
< jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >
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