Re: CVS Diff Problem

[Prashant]

lawrence.jones@ugsplm.com (Larry Jones) wrote in message 
news:<mailman.1988.1091068747.1960.bug-cvs@gnu.org>...
> Jim.Hyslop writes:
> > 
> > Only use 'cvs import' to import a third-party source tree. Don't use it to
> > initially populate your repository of your own files.
> 
> Why not?  That's the easiest way to get an existing source tree into CVS
> regardless of whether it's third-party sources or your own.
> 
> > Did you just type in random CVS revisions, or are the revisions you
> > mentioned here the actual revisions causing you problems? If they are the
> > actual revisions, then even a 'cvs -nq up' will not show anything, because
> > the other user checked in his/her changes on a different branch.
> 
> Not so.  In this particular case (revisions 1.1.1.1 and 1.2), one
> revision is on the vendor branch and the other is on the trunk.  Part of
> the vendor branch magic is to automatically switch from the vendor
> branch to the trunk as soon as something is committed to the trunk, so
> 'cvs -nq up' *will* show that an update is required in this case.
> 
> -Larry Jones
> 
> I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world. -- Calvin

The thing is that I already know that it needs a patch/merge/update
because doing a cvs status on it will tell me that.  Isn't there a
setting or command to make it diff against the head of the trunk
without specifying it everytime?