Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 21:01:34 +0200 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Rolf Grossmann <grossman@progtech.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using CVS diff to find out what has changed, including new files Message-ID: <xzpptjlp7qp.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <200308041304.h74D4u000654@isis.muc.progtech.intern> (Rolf Grossmann's message of "Mon, 4 Aug 2003 15:04:56 %2B0200 (CEST)") References: <200308041304.h74D4u000654@isis.muc.progtech.intern>
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Rolf Grossmann <grossman@progtech.net> writes: > I'm using cvsup for a while now to get a copy of the FreeBSD CVS reposito= ry > and I have a (slightly modified) version of -STABLE checked out from ther= e. > Now there are certain areas where I'd like to see what changed before > doing a "cvs update". Currently I'm using "cvs diff -u -N -r BASE -r RELE= NG_4" > to do that. However this has one drawback that I'm hoping you'll be > able to help me with: If files have been removed from the distribution, > these files continue to show up as getting readded (even though they > won't when doing an update). To see the problem, you can go to > /usr/src/sbin/md5 and run the above cvs diff command. That's normal behaviour with CVS when using branches. The only workaround I know of is to specify the files explicitly. With zsh, you can do 'cvs diff -Nu -rBASE -rRELENG_4 **/*~*CVS*(.)' DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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