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Re: How to diff branch sandbox against tip of trunk?
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Spiro Trikaliotis |
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Re: How to diff branch sandbox against tip of trunk? |
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Sun, 4 Nov 2007 17:26:25 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
Hello Nelson,
* On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 03:58:29AM -0700 Nelson Bolyard wrote:
> It seems that when I'm working on sources in a "sandbox" that was checked
> out from a branch, there's no easy way to diff those sandbox files with
> the files on the tip of the trunk. It seems that while I'm working in the
> branch sandbox, HEAD means "This branch's branch tag", not "tip of trunk".
This is correct.
Because of this, some people add a special tag to their repository:
"cvs tag -r1 REALHEAD"
This way, they can diff against the "real" head by doing a
"cvs diff -r REALHEAD"
HTH,
Spiro.
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Re: How to diff branch sandbox against tip of trunk?, Ted Stern, 2007/11/05