RE: cvs diff on repository

[Martin Roehrig]

Hi Aaron,

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> I'm wanting to set CVS up so that every time a file is committed it will
> send an email with the diffs to the other developers for code review.
> 
> I added a line to the loginfo file:
> 
> DEFAULT $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/cvsdiff.pl %{sVv}
> 
> cvsdiff.pl is a script that does a cvs diff of the two versions and
> emails the results.  However, a cvs diff does not work on the repository
> files (",v"), it complains about missing CVS/Entries.  Is there a way to
> get the diff of two different versions of a file from the repository?  I
> noticed that the contrib/log.pl script is meant to be run from loginfo
> and does a cvs status, which also fails for me from the repository.

I suppose cvs rdiff would solve your problem. It's described in the manual.

HTH
Martin