Best way to forward-diff from working copy to HEAD (was Re: strange cvs diff problem with pcl-cvs and viewcvs)

[Doug Lee]

Quick add-on question:

On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 08:25:14AM -0400, Frederic Brehm wrote:
> To see the differences between the local file and the head version you need 
> to 
> use the command "cvs diff -r HEAD main.f".

Any way to reverse that so it's a forward diff, particularly on a
whole file set at once?  I've been using

    cvs diff -r BASE -r HEAD [file]

but that generates error messages when files have been removed etc.,
and I wonder if there's a better way.  This tactic also seems to fail
on branches, though I find "HEAD" seems to have a different meaning
sometimes on a branch anyway.

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