Re: Add "-b" argument to "cvs rdiff"?

[Stephen Rasku]

Jonathan Kamens wrote:

>I'd like to be able to do date-based comparisons with "cvs rdiff" on a
>branch instead of on the trunk.  As far as I can tell there's no way
>to do that.  The obvious solution seems to be to add a "-b" option to
>rdiff, which would be ignored for "-r" arguments but used for "-D"
>arguments.  My questions:
>
>1) Am I correct that what I'm trying to do isn't supported right now?
>
>2) Is the solution I'm proposing reasonable?
>
>3) Does anybody know of any gotchas I should watch out for when I try
>   to do this and/or suggestions for how to implement the change?

Please don't use "-b"; "-b" is used by "cvs diff" to do a difference 
ignoring blanks.  "cvs rdiff" doesn't currently support this but we 
shouldn't use options that conflict with a similar command.  I suggest 
"-B" or "-R".

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