RE: how to extract two versions of file for comparison

[Dave Korn]

----Original Message----
>From: NoPlatitudes
>Sent: 14 July 2005 14:16

> 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?


cvs update -C -r <rev> -p file.name > /temp/file.name



    cheers,
      DaveK
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