Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 21:32:19 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: davidg@Root.COM Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>, CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-etc@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc sysconfig Message-ID: <7735.811139539@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 14 Sep 1995 18:47:45 PDT." <199509150147.SAA00186@corbin.Root.COM>
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> Well, then the behavior isn't consistent. Instead of doing the update, > instead do the following: > > vi pstat.c > (and make some stupid but identifiable change) > cvs diff -c -rHEAD pstat.c > > The differences you see will be relative to the head of the RELENG_2_1_0 > branch, NOT the head of the "main" branch. Ah, but I believe that's because `cvs diff' has long been broken. Try this, for an example: cvs co foo cd foo cvs diff -rRELENG_2_1_0 -rHEAD You'll see nothing. According to the man page, you're *supposed* to be able to generate diffs against arbitrary tags, but it's certainly never worked that way for me. Jordan
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