Re: how to extract two versions of file for comparison

[Andy Jones]

try something like:
cvs update -r [version] -p [filename] >temp/[filename]


On 14 Jul 2005 06:16:04 -0700, NoPlatitudes <address@hidden> wrote:
> I am trying to get the difference between the latest working version of
> a file and a previous version.  I need to use a third party tool to
> examine this difference (cvs's diff functionality won't do what I want
> here).  I want the newest version to remain in my 'standard' working
> directory, and I'd like the old version to be extracted (for reference
> only; no edits needed) to another directory, like /temp off of my
> working directory.  How can I do this?
> 
> Thanks...
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