Re: diff after update

[Eric Siegerman]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 02:56:56PM -0500, Matt Riechers wrote:
> David Hugh-Jones wrote:
> > How do I find out what the cvs update has changed, between my old 
> > uncommitted
> > version, and the new version created by the update?
>
> If it merged repository changes with your local changes,

diff .#foo.c.XXX foo.c

for an appropriate value of XXX (it's the revision number of the
file with which you had last synchronized, *before* the update
that created the .# file, i.e. the old value of -rBASE.)

> you can diff the
> previous revision against your local copy to see the recently merged changes 
> and
> your uncommited changes. For example, if the new repository file rev is 1.2, 
> and
> you were working on 1.1, do 'cvs diff -r1.1 foo.c' to see the merged changes
> with your local changes.

That gives something slightly different.  As you say, it shows
both sets of changes together -- the 1.1->1.2 changes and the
user's uncommitted ones.

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