Re: cvs diff -r queston

[Larry Jones]

Mark Lancisi writes:
> 
> This does do the appropriate diffs, however I don't understand why
> simply running cvs diff -rHEAD doesn't do the same thing..

Because, unlike every other CVS subcommand, diff interprets HEAD as the
head of the current branch rather than as the head of the trunk.  Unless
you've done something silly, you can use ``-r1'' to get the head of the
trunk.

-Larry Jones

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